Pressure piece of a rack-and-pinion steering system
AssigneeSchaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
InventorHans Walter Wodtke
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Abstract
Pressure piece (9) of a rack-and-pinion steering system, wherein the pressure piece (9) can be pressed along a pressure axis (D) against a rack (5), wherein the pressure piece (9) has a guide (14) for the rack (5) along its rack axis (Z), wherein an adjusting device (17) for adjusting the guide (14) of the pressure piece (9) along an adjusting axis (S) is provided, wherein the adjusting axis (S) intersects a plane containing the pressure axis (D) and also the rack axis (Z). It is possible to place the rack (5) off-axis in a targeted manner in order to reduce unwanted noise.
Claims16
1-15. (canceled)
A pressure piece of a rack-and-pinion steering system, the pressure piece pressable along a pressure axis against a toothed rack, the pressure piece comprising:
- a guide for the toothed rack along a toothed rack axis;
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- an adjuster for displacing the guide of the pressure piece along an adjusting axis, the adjusting axis intersecting a plane containing the pressure axis as well as the toothed rack axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.