Steering stabilizing means
AssigneeSAF-HOLLAND GmbH
InventorJean Khoury
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Abstract
An actuating unit for use in a steering stabilizing apparatus that includes a housing, a first transmission element and a second transmission element, wherein the first transmission element and the second transmission element protrude into the housing from the outside and are configured to be displaced along a restoring axis, wherein the first transmission element engages a first pressure element at the first end of the first transmission element and wherein the second transmission element engages a second pressure element at the first end of the second transmission element, and wherein the first pressure element and the second pressure element are disposed within a chamber of the housing and are subjected by a restoring arrangement to a restoring force acting along the restoring axis.
Claims25
-15. (canceled)
An actuating unit for use in a steering stabilizing apparatus, comprising:
- a housing;
- a first transmission element;
- and
- a second transmission element;
- wherein the first transmission element and the second transmission element protrude into the housing from the outside and are configured to be displaced along a restoring axis;
- wherein the first transmission element engages a first pressure element at the first end of the first transmission element and wherein the second transmission element engages a second pressure element at the first end of the second transmission element;
- and
- wherein the first pressure element and the second pressure element are disposed entirely within the interior of the housing and are subjected by a restoring arrangement to a restoring force acting along the restoring axis.
The actuating unit as claimed in claim 5, wherein the position of at least one of the first and the second engagement section is adjustable and is configured to be fixed by at least one of shape locking and force locking.
A steering stabilizing apparatus for a commercial vehicle, comprising:
- an actuating unit;
- a steering rod;
- and
- two struts;
- wherein the actuating unit comprises a housing that is disposed positionally fixedly relative to an axle element;
- wherein the actuating unit is configured to subject both struts to the same magnitude of a force with the steering rod in a rest position relative to the axle element;
- wherein the struts are configured to transmit the force between the actuating unit and the steering rod;
- and
- wherein the actuating unit is configured, in the event of deflection of the steering rod from the rest position parallel to a restoring axis, to transmit a larger force to one of the struts than to the respective other strut when the steering rod is deflected from the rest position parallel to a restoring axis.
The steering stabilizing apparatus as claimed in claim 13, wherein the actuating unit comprises a chamber in which a fluid is disposed such that the actuating unit damps a displacement of the steering rod relative to the axle element by fluid friction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.