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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2020
Applicant:
Nsk Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Ryou Oosawa, Maebashi, JP;
Satoshi Ishikuri, Maebashi, JP;
Haruhiko Kiyota, Maebashi, JP;
Souta Matsumoto, Maebashi, JP;
Toru Ishii, Maebashi, JP;
Hiroyuki Sugawara, Maebashi, JP;
Assignee:
NSK LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 1/16 (2006.01); B62D 5/04 (2006.01); F16H 57/022 (2012.01); F16H 57/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 1/16 (2013.01); B62D 5/0409 (2013.01); B62D 5/0454 (2013.01); F16H 57/022 (2013.01); F16H 57/12 (2013.01); F16H 2057/127 (2013.01);
Abstract
A worm reducer has: a housing having a wheel housing portion and a worm housing portion; a worm wheel; a worm, a support bearing having an inner ring externally fitted to the tip end portion of the worm and an outer ring; an elastic biasing means elastically biasing the outer ring toward the worm wheel side; and an elastic holding means elastically holding the outer ring from both sides in a direction orthogonal to a biasing direction by the elastic biasing means and to a center axis of the worm housing portion.