US 2009/0014231 A1 · ELECTRIC POWER STEERING APPARATUS

Abstract

An electric power steering apparatus including a steering system into which steering torque is inputted, an electric motor for imparting steering assist force to the steering system, a controller for controlling a energizing state of the electric motor according to the steering torque, a terminal board electrically connected to the electric motor, and a control unit provided with a connector, wherein a mounting face of the electric motor with respect to the control unit, a mounting face of the terminal board with respect to the control unit, and a mounting face of the connector with respect to the control unit are arranged on a same plane.

Claims6

Dependent claims

An electric power steering apparatus comprising:

a steering system into which steering torque is inputted;
an electric motor which imparts steering assist force to the steering system;
a controller which controls an energizing state of the electric motor according to the steering torque;
and
a control unit provided with a terminal board and a connector which are electrically connected to the electric motor,
wherein a mounting face of the electric motor with respect to the control unit, a mounting face of the terminal board with respect to the control unit, and amounting face of the connector with respect to the control unit are arranged on a same plane.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/090,106Filed 14 Sep 2006

Priority

JP 2005-29852513 Oct 2005

Published

15 Jan 2009

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

B62D 5/0406
Characterised by constructional features, e.g. common housing for motor and gear box: including housing for electronic control unit
H02K 5/225
Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups H02K5/06-H02K5/20, e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes: terminal boxes or…
B62D
Motor vehicles
H02K
Dynamo-electric machines

Electric power steering apparatus

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Electric power steering apparatus

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Abstract

Claims6