Steering system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroyuki Toyoda, Hiroki Murata
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Abstract
A steering system including a plurality of steering devices respectively provided for a plurality of steerable wheels that belong to at least one of a front-wheel side and a rear-wheel side of a vehicle, wherein the plurality of steering devices respectively include a plurality of steering actuators, and wherein each of at least one of the plurality of steering actuators is disposed on an inner side of a corresponding one of side members of the vehicle.
Claims6
A steering system including a plurality of steering devices respectively provided for a plurality of steerable wheels that belong to at least one of a front-wheel side and a rear-wheel side of a vehicle,
- wherein the plurality of steering devices respectively include a plurality of steering actuators,
- wherein each of at least one of the plurality of steering actuators is disposed on an inner side of a corresponding one of side members of the vehicle,
- wherein the plurality of steerable wheels include front left and right wheels that belong to the front-wheel side,
- wherein the plurality of steering devices include front-wheel-side left and right steering devices respectively provided for the front left and right wheels,
- wherein each of the front left and right wheels is supported, via a corresponding one of suspension arms, by a corresponding one of body members that include the side members so as to be movable in an up-down direction relative to the corresponding one of the body members,
- wherein the front-wheel-side left and right steering devices respectively include tie rods each of which connects an output shaft of a corresponding one of the plurality of steering actuators and a corresponding one of the front left and right wheels, and
- wherein each of the tie rods is disposed such that the corresponding one of the front left and right wheels is toed out when moved in the up-down direction relative to the corresponding one of the body members.
A steering system including a plurality of steering devices respectively provided for a plurality of steerable wheels that belong to at least one of a front-wheel side and a rear-wheel side of a vehicle,
- wherein the plurality of steering devices respectively include a plurality of steering actuators,
- wherein each of at least one of the plurality of steering actuators is disposed on an inner side of a corresponding one of side members of the vehicle,
- wherein the plurality of steerable wheels include rear left and right wheels that belong to the rear-wheel side,
- wherein the plurality of steering devices include rear-wheel-side left and right steering devices respectively provided for the rear left and right wheels,
- wherein each of the rear left and right wheels is supported, via a corresponding one of suspension arms, by a corresponding one of body members that include the side members so as to be movable in an up-down direction relative to the corresponding one of the body members,
- wherein the rear-wheel-side left and right steering devices respectively include tie rods each of which connects an output shaft of a corresponding one of the plurality of steering actuators and a corresponding one of the rear left and right wheels, and
- wherein each of the tie rods is disposed such that the corresponding one of the rear left and right wheels is toed in when moved in the up-down direction relative to the corresponding one of the body members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.