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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 1986
Filed:
Apr. 12, 1984
Hajime Kozuka, Okazaki, JP;
Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The known power steering system of the type that movement of a steering wheel is transmitted via a torsion bar to an oil path switching valve to actuate a power cylinder in a desired steering direction by switching a high pressure oil path extending from an oil pump to the oil path switching valve and a low pressure oil path extending from the oil path switching valve to an oil tank and a part of working oil flowing through the high pressure oil path is led to a reaction piston to restrain torsion of the torsion bar, is improved in that the power steering system comprises a control oil path branched from the high pressure oil path and communicating with the reaction piston, a pressure control valve interposed in the control oil path for controlling an oil pressure to be equal to or lower than a predetermined highest pressure, a flow rate control valve provided on the downstream side of the pressure control valve for controlling a flow rate depending upon a car speed, a first orifice for communicating the downstream side of the flow rate control valve to the low pressure oil path, and a pilot oil path for transmitting a pilot pressure generated on the upstream of the first orifice to the pressure control valve.