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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2008
Yoshihide Ohara, Kahiba, JP;
Masahiko Hirose, Osaka, JP;
Masaaki Hashimoto, Kahiwara, JP;
Mutsumi Watanabe, Kashihara, JP;
Takahiro Tanaka, Kashihara, JP;
Yoshihide Ohara, Kahiba, JP;
Masahiko Hirose, Osaka, JP;
Masaaki Hashimoto, Kahiwara, JP;
Mutsumi Watanabe, Kashihara, JP;
Takahiro Tanaka, Kashihara, JP;
JTEKT Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A center take-off rack-and-pinion steering apparatus includes a cylindrical rack housing having an elongate hole extending in a longitudinal direction, a mounting bracket for mounting ends of a pair of tie rods on a rack shaft, and a slider interposed between the mounting bracket and the rack shaft and slidable in an inner periphery of the elongate hole. The inner periphery of the elongate hole and the slider include sliding contact sections that are brought into sliding contact with each other along with the slide of the slider slides. The sliding contact sections include at least a pair of curved sliding contact surfaces that are brought into sliding contact with each other in a curved shape when seen in an axial direction of the rack shaft.