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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 1988
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1987
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A motor-driven power steering device includes an electric motor for generating assistive torque which is applied through a ball screw mechanism to a steering gear mechanism to reduce manual steering forces applied by the driver to steer a motor vehicle. The motor-driven power steering device comprises a rack-and-pinion steering gear mechanism for converting the rotation of a pinion shaft to axial movement of a rack shaft, an electric motor for generating assistive torque to be applied to the rack-and-pinion steering gear mechanism, and a ball screw mechanism for converting the assistive torque from the motor to the axial movement of the rack shaft. The ball screw mechanism has a screw shaft having a helical groove defined in an outer peripheral surface thereof and extending substantially parallel to the rack shaft, the screw shaft being receptive of the assistive torque generated by the motor, a nut having a helical groove defined in an inner peripheral surface thereof and disposed around the screw shaft, the nut being nonrotatably coupled to the rack shaft, and a plurality of balls disposed in and between the helical grooves of the screw shaft and the nut.