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US 11,143,278 B2Granted
Assistance device
AssigneeNabtesco Corporation
InventorsKoji Nakamura, Masahiro Takahashi, Yuto Nakai
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Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide a steering assistance device that has a single line of final output, thereby to achieve downsizing. The assistance device of the present application includes a speed reducer configured to decelerate a driving force from a motor and output the decelerated driving force, wherein the speed reducer is configured to receive an operation force produced by an operation of a human.
Claims11
An assistance device comprising:
- a speed reducer configured to:
- receive an operation force produced by a manual input along with a driving force from a motor, and output a steering force based on the received operation force from the manual input and based on the received driving force from the motor;
- and
- an output shaft configured to:
- receive the steering force, based on the operation force from the manual input and based on the driving force from the motor, from the speed reducer, and
- transmit the steering force to a steering mechanism,
- wherein the speed reducer comprises a crank shaft and an oscillating gear, and
- wherein the operation force produced by the manual input is inputted to the crank shaft.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.