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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2000
Masanori Kobayashi, Nara, JP;
Kouji Ogushi, Osaka, JP;
Takefumi Deyama, Nara, JP;
Etsuro Kitami, Nara, JP;
Hiroaki Murakami, Nara, JP;
Teruo Tsutsui, Osaka, JP;
Takashi Tsutsui, Osaka, JP;
Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
When a steering wheel is relatively quickly turned at the time of parking, before a first stopper mechanism located between an input shaft and an output shaft is operated, an elastic member attached to a movement end of a rack shaft comes into contact with a rack stopper of a rack housing , thereby absorbing the impact at the time of steering at parking. That is, the strike speed when contact portions of the first stopper mechanism are brought into contact with each other, is slowed down. Accordingly, the uncomfortable noise due to the strike sound is not given to the driver.