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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:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2012
Seiji Ueno, Gunma-ken, JP;
Seiji Ueno, Gunma-ken, JP;
NSK Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A steering apparatus has a pinion shaft that transmits rotation of a steering wheel to a rack shaft, a bearing that is internally fitted to the housing, rotatably supports one end of the pinion shaft on the housing, and bears a radial load and a thrust load acting on the pinion shaft, and a retaining ring that is internally fitted to an annular groove provided on the inner circumferential surface of the housing and has a C-shaped part and an opening defined by two opposed ends of the C-shaped part, the C-shaped part being in contact with an end face of an outer ring of the bearing to thereby fix the outer ring of the bearing to the housing. The retaining ring is internally fitted to the annular groove in such a way that the opening faces toward the rack teeth as seen from an axial direction of the pinion shaft.
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