Bearing for steering assembly
AssigneeSaint-Gobain Performance Plastics Rencol Limited
InventorsJames K. Burgess, Neil James, James Upton, David Long, Alejandro Pena
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Abstract
A bearing for disposition between a housing and a rotating member, the bearing including: at least one leaf spring element that provides a biasing force in a Y direction; where the bearing has a first stiffness, S1, in the Y direction and a second stiffness, S2, in an X direction perpendicular to the Y direction, where S2≥S1, and where the bearing includes a metal substrate and a low friction layer overlying at least one surface of the substrate and adapted to contact the rotating member.
Claims18
A bearing for disposition between a housing and a rotating member, the bearing comprising:
- at least one leaf spring element that provides a biasing force in a Y direction;
- wherein the bearing has a first stiffness, S1, in the Y direction and a second stiffness, S2, in an X direction perpendicular to the Y direction, wherein S2≥S1, and wherein the bearing comprises a metal substrate and a low friction layer overlying at least one surface of the substrate and adapted to contact the rotating member, wherein the bearing comprises an axial gap, wherein the at least one spring element comprises a cantilevered finger formed in a cutout of the semi-annular band.
An assembly comprising:
- a housing;
- a rotating member;
- and
- a bearing disposed between the housing and the rotating member, the bearing comprising:
- at least one leaf spring element that provides a biasing force in a Y direction;
- wherein the bearing has a first stiffness, S1, in the Y direction and a second stiffness, S2, in an X direction perpendicular to the Y direction, wherein S2≥S1, and wherein the bearing comprises a metal substrate and a low friction layer overlying at least one surface of the substrate and adapted to contact the rotating member, wherein the bearing comprises an axial gap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.