Oiles Corporation

Yosuke Nishitani

Yoshimitsu Ishida

Noboru Nakagawa

Shunya Oda

A rack guide for a rack and pinion steering device, a rack and pinion steering device, and a manufacturing method for a rack guide for a rack and pinion steering device have a simple configuration with a close contact property being kept between a rack guide and a rack guide base member to ensure quietness. A rack guide for a rack and pinion steering device includes: a casing; a pinion to be slidably supported by the casing; a rack bar having a rack tooth meshed with the pinion; a rack guide including an abutment portion to which the rack bar is to be slidably abutted and a recessed portion, which is continued to the abutment portion, to be spaced from the rack bar; a rack guide base member for receiving the rack guide; and an urging unit to urge the rack guide against the rack bar through the rack guide base member.

Rack guide for rack and pinion steering device, rack and pinion steering device and manufacturing method of rack guide for rack and pinion steering device

A rack guide for a rack and pinion steering device, a rack and pinion steering device and a manufacturing method for a rack guide for a rack and pinion steering device, has a simple configuration with a close contact property being kept between a rack guide and a rack guide base member to ensure quietness. A rack guide for a rack and pinion steering device includes: a casing; a pinion to be slidably supported by said casing; a rack bar having a rack tooth meshed with said pinion; a rack guide including an abutment portion to which said rack bar is to be slidably abutted and a recessed portion, which is continued to said abutment portion, to be spaced from said rack bar; a rack guide base member for receiving said rack guide; and urging means for urging said rack guide against said rack bar through said rack guide base member.

A bush bearingincludes a synthetic resin-made bushhaving a circumferential grooveon an outer peripheral surfacethereof; an endless annular elastic memberfitted in the circumferential grooveof the bush; and a positioning meansfor determining the position of the bushin a B direction with respect to an inner peripheral surfaceof a gear housing

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yosuke Nishitani