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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2005
Applicants:
Tsutomu Ohkubo, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsushi Minakami, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Tsutomu Ohkubo, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsushi Minakami, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
NSK Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 25/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A ball circulating member constructed in an external face of a nut is provided with ball scooping sections for scooping up balls rolling on between ball screw grooves of a screw shaft and the nut, along a line tangent to a center orbital circle of the balls. The path length of a ball scooping path section formed in the ball scooping sections is set to be ½ or greater of the diameter of the ball.