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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 1989
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
74422 ; 74498 ;
Abstract
A steering gear mechanism has in combination a housing, a pinion shaft rotatably in the interior of the housing and provided with a pinion thereon; a slidable rack bar guided the housing and formed on one surface thereof with a rack adapted to operatively engage with the pinion, and a friction device adapted to give rise to a relatively large frictional force in the directions of sliding motion of the rack bar in the neutral steering position, while giving rise to a relatively small frictational force in the same direction of sliding motion within the normal range of the steering operation of the rack bar.