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US 9,435,420 B2Granted
Yoke clearance compensator of vehicle
AssigneeHyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
InventorTae Yoon Kim
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Abstract
A yoke clearance compensator of a vehicle may include: a support yoke for supporting a rack bar; a yoke plug coupled to the support yoke through an elastic part and having a cavity formed therein; a pressurizing unit installed in the cavity of the yoke plug and providing a pressurizing force to the support yoke; and an end plug for fixing the pressurizing unit to the yoke plug.
Claims7
A yoke clearance compensator of a vehicle, comprising:
- a support yoke configured to push a rack bar along an axis;
- a torsion spring having a first end portion and a second end portion;
- a pushing member fixed to the first end portion of the torsion spring and biased along the axis toward the support yoke for pushing the support yoke toward the rack bar along the axis;
- a torque adjuster being a separate piece from the pushing member and fixed to the second end portion of the torsion spring, wherein the torque adjuster is configured to rotate about the axis relative to the pushing member to adjust a torsion torque of the torsion spring such that force applied to the pushing member for pushing the support yoke is adjusted;
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- a yoke plug configured to engage with the torque adjuster to fix the torque adjuster's angular position relative to the yoke plug and the pushing member once the torsion torque is adjusted.
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