Automotive power steering gear

An automotive power steering gear comprising:

• means defining a steering gear housing,
• an input shaft supported on said housing for rotation about a first axis thereof in a right turn direction and in an opposite left turn direction,
• an output shaft supported on said housing for rotation about said first axis independent of said input shaft in said right turn and said left turn directions,
• a spring means between said input and said output shafts biasing said input shaft to a centered position relative to said output shaft,
• a first driving disc means supported on said housing for rotation in one of said right turn and said left turn directions,
• a second driving disc means supported on said housing for rotation in the other of said right and said left turn directions,
• means discs operative to continuously rotate said first and said second driving disc means in respective ones of said right and said left turn directions,
• a driven disc means supported on said housing for rotation and for bodily shiftable movement in opposite directions from a neutral position equally spaced from each of said first and said second driving discs means,
• means drivingly connecting said driven disc means to said output shaft,
• means operative to bodily shift said driven disc means from said neutral position in one of said opposite directions toward one of said first and said second driving discs means when said input shaft is angularly displaced from said centered position relative to said output shaft in one of said right and said left turn directions, and
• means on each of said first and said second driving discs means and on said driven disc means operative to effect a magnetic induced torque on said driven disc means in the direction of rotation of one of said first and said second driving disc means when said driven disc means is bodily shifted from said neutral position toward said one of said first and said second driven discs means.