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US 2025/0128756 A1Published application
Rack bar support device of vehicle steering device
AssigneeHl Mando Corporation
InventorJeonghwa HAN
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Abstract
A rack bar support device of a vehicle steering device is provided to render the left/right supporting forces for the support yoke to support the rack bar when the rack bar slides left and right, prevent noise due to impact, reversely coming from the road surface or a gap increased by the wear of the support yoke, and provide a comfortable sense of steering to the driver during steering.
Claims20
A rack bar support device of a vehicle steering device, the rack bar support device comprising:
- a support yoke including a front side configured to support a rack bar of the vehicle steering device and a rear side having a tapered recess formed in a center thereof, the support yoke being configured to be coupled to a mounting hole of a gear box housing of the vehicle steering device, wherein an inner circumferential surface of the tapered recess has a diameter decreasing toward the rack bar;
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- a yoke plug including a supporting protrusion at a front side thereof to protrude toward the support yoke, wherein the supporting protrusion supports the inner circumferential surface of the tapered recess to support the support yoke toward the rack bar and to cause the support yoke to be fixed in the mounting hole of the gear box housing.
A rack bar support device of a vehicle steering device, the rack bar support device comprising:
- a support yoke including a front side configured to support a rack bar of the vehicle steering device and a rear side having a cylinder recess formed in a center thereof, the support yoke being configured to be coupled to a mounting hole of a gear box housing of the vehicle steering device, wherein an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder recess has a uniform diameter;
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- a yoke plug including a tapered protrusion at a front side thereof, a diameter of an outer circumferential surface of the tapered protrusion being decreased toward the rack bar, the tapered protrusion being supported on the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder recess to support the support yoke toward the rack bar and to cause the support yoke to be fixed in the mounting hole of the gear box housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.