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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 08, 1999
Mitsuba Corporation, Gunma-ken, JP;
Abstract
In an electric power steering device, a yoke made of a tubular member and carrying permanent magnets, and a hollow motor shaft coaxially and rotatably received in the yoke to carry a motor armature which cooperates with the permanent magnets to form an electric motor for the power steering device, a section of the yoke extending from an axial end thereof to a part thereof surrounding an axial end of the motor shaft defines an inner diameter which is greater than an outer diameter of the nut member so that the output torque of the electric motor can be measured during the course of assembling the power steering device by allowing a testing tool to be inserted from the open end of the yoke without any interference and to be applied to a suitable part of the nut member or the motor shaft. Thus, the performance of the electric motor can be directly evaluated before the power steering device is fully assembled so that any faulty electric motor can be either rejected or repaired before any further assembling work is conducted.