Toothed-rack steering gear, and servo steering system equipped with the same
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorTorsten Kluge
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Abstract
Described is a toothed-rack steering gear having a drive pinion (3) which is rotatably mounted in a steering housing (2) and which engages into a toothed rack (4) which is axially movably mounted in the steering housing (2), having a thrust piece (5) which preloads the toothed rack (4) against the drive pinion (3), and having at least one further machine element (15) which is operatively connected to the toothed rack (4) and which is mounted so as to be radially immovable with respect to the toothed rack (4), wherein the preload force exerted on the toothed rack (4) by the thrust piece (5) causes bending of the toothed rack (4).
Claims9
A toothed-rack steering gear having a drive pinion which is rotatably mounted in a steering housing and which engages into a toothed rack which is axially movably mounted in the steering housing, and having a thrust piece which preloads the toothed rack against the drive pinion,
- wherein
- at least one machine element which is mounted so as to be radially immovable with respect to the toothed rack (4) is operatively connected to the toothed rack, and the preload force exerted on the toothed rack by the thrust piece causes bending of the toothed rack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.