Guide bearing of a rack of a steering system
AssigneeJtekt Europe
InventorsRoch Monnet, Arnaud Latreille, Yannick Vigne
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AssigneeJtekt Europe
InventorsRoch Monnet, Arnaud Latreille, Yannick Vigne
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A rack guide bearing for meshing a pinion and vehicle steering system rack, the guide bearing including a wall, a first portion is tubular and defines an axis and internal channel around the axis opening at the guide bearing first end, and opening onto a second portion of the wall opposite the first end, an internal channel section transverse to the axis and inserts the rack into the channel according to the rack axis parallel to the guide bearing axis, the guide bearing including an internal channel inner surface of the guide bearing wall's first portion and an inner surface of the guide bearing wall's second portion, the inner surfaces are in slipping contact with a slipping surface of the rack opposite to a toothing of the rack, when the rack is inserted inside the first portion of the wall's internal channel according to the axis of the rack.
A guide bearing of a rack for meshing a pinion and the rack of a steering system of a vehicle, the guide bearing comprising a wall, a first portion of the wall being tubular and defining an axis of the guide bearing and an internal channel around the axis, the internal channel opening at a first end of the guide bearing, and opening onto a second portion of the wall opposite to the first end in the axis of the guide bearing, the internal channel having a section transverse to the axis, the section being configured to enable the insertion of the rack inside the internal channel according to an axis of the rack parallel to the axis of the guide bearing, the guide bearing comprising an inner surface of the internal channel of the first portion of the wall of the guide bearing and an inner surface of the second portion of the wall of the guide bearing, the inner surfaces being arranged so as to be in slipping contact with a slipping surface of the rack opposite to a toothing of the rack, when the rack is inserted inside the internal channel of the first portion of the wall according to the axis of the rack, the guide bearing further comprising at least one damping means placed, at least partially, around the guide bearing according to a plane transverse to the axis of the guide bearing, the at least one damping means being arranged on the second portion of the wall, the pinion being positioned opposite the inner surface of the second portion of the wall of the guide bearing so as to mesh the toothing of the rack,
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