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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:
Aug. 06, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2000
Paul R. Sahr, Lake Orion, MI (US);
TRW Inc., Lyndhurst, OH (US);
Abstract
A rack and pinion steering gear ( ). The rack and pinion steering gear ( ) comprises a housing ( ) having a chamber ( ). A portion of the chamber ( ) is a relief pocket ( ). A pinion gear ( ) is rotatably mounted in the chamber ( ) of the housing ( ). A rack bar ( ) is movable relative to the pinion gear ( ). The rack bar ( ) is at least partially disposed in the chamber ( ) of the housing ( ) and has teeth ( ) in meshing engagement with the pinion gear ( ). A spring ( ) is disposed in the chamber ( ) of the housing ( ) for supporting and guiding movement of the rack bar ( ) relative to the pinion gear ( ). The spring ( ) extends across an opening to the relief pocket ( ). The spring ( ) extends into the relief pocket ( ) as a load applied to the spring ( ) from the rack bar ( ) increases.
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