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US 12,187,350 B2Granted
Vehicle steering apparatus
AssigneeHyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
InventorYoung Gi Oh
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle steering apparatus, the vehicle steering apparatus includes a main housing; a worm shaft rotatably disposed on the main housing; a worm wheel meshed with the worm shaft; a bearing disposed on the worm shaft; an elastically deformable guide surrounding an outer surface of the bearing and disposed within the main housing; and a pressing part extending through the elastically deformable guide to be in contact with the bearing and configured to press the worm shaft toward the worm wheel.
Claims9
A vehicle steering apparatus, comprising:
- a main housing;
- a worm shaft rotatably disposed on the main housing;
- a worm wheel meshed with the worm shaft;
- a bearing disposed on the worm shaft;
- an elastically deformable guide surrounding an outer surface of the bearing and disposed within the main housing;
- and
- a pressing part extending through the elastically deformable guide to be in contact with the bearing and configured to press the worm shaft toward the worm wheel,
- wherein the elastically deformable guide comprises:
- a guide body disposed within the main housing and surrounding the outer surface of the bearing;
- a through-hole extending through the guide body and allowing the pressing part to be inserted thereinto;
- a plurality of guide protrusions protruding from the guide body in a circumferential direction of the guide body to be in contact with an inner surface of the main housing;
- and
- stepped protrusions disposed on the guide body to be spaced apart from the guide protrusions and in contact with the inner surface of the main housing,
- wherein a maximum outer diameter of the stepped protrusions is greater than an inner diameter of the main housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.