Abstract:
A ball screw includes a nut, a screw shaft, an end deflector attached to the nut, plural balls, and a pair of ball lifting portions. A spiral groove is formed at an outer peripheral surface in the screw shaft. The plural balls roll along the spiral groove. The pair of ball lifting portions is provided at the end deflector so as to interpose a width center of the spiral groove. The pair of ball lifting portions supports the balls by a first part of one of the pair of ball lifting portions and a second part of other of the pair of ball lifting portions being apart from each other in a width direction of the spiral groove so as to interpose the width center of the spiral groove between the first and second parts to thereby lift the balls from the spiral groove.
Abstract:
An actuator includes a motor, a rotation transmitting member, a reverse input preventing device, a converting device, and a rod. The motor includes a rotating shaft. The rotation transmitting member is configured to transmit rotation of the rotating shaft. The reverse input preventing device includes an input member and an output member. The reverse input preventing device is configured to prevent external force input to the output member from being transmitted to the input member. The converting device includes a nut that rotates according to the rotation of the output member. The converting device is configured to convert a rotary motion of the nut into a linear motion. The rod is configured to advance and retract according to the linear motion of the converting device. The input member and the rotation transmitting member are integrated. The output member and the nut are integrated.
Abstract:
A joint structure includes first and second engagement members, and an elastic member. The first engagement member includes a first body and a first engagement claw. The second engagement member includes a second body and a second engagement claw. The elastic member is disposed between the first and second engagement portions in a circumferential direction. When a relative rotation angle between the first and second engagement members is less than a predetermined angle, the first and second engagement claws are not in direct contact with each other in the circumferential direction, and a rotational force is transmitted through the elastic member while the elastic member is being elastically deformed. When the relative rotation angle is equal to the predetermined angle, the first and second engagement claws are in direct contact with each other in the circumferential direction.
Abstract:
A steering apparatus includes a rack shaft moving in a vehicle width direction for steering steered wheels, a rack end in a moving side, which is provided in the rack shaft and integrally moving with the rack shaft, a housing body in a fixed side, which does not move in the vehicle width direction and controls the movement of the rack shaft by collision from the rack end to the housing body and a shock absorbing member provided between the rack end and the housing body to absorb a shock from the rack end to the housing body, in which the shock absorbing member includes a low-spring rate portion and a high-spring rate portion having a higher spring rate than that of the low-spring rate portion in the vehicle width direction.
Abstract:
An reaction force adjustment member is attached to a suspension including a cylinder, a piston rod which has a piston at one end thereof and which is inserted into the cylinder together with the piston, and a diaphragm which has one end fixed to the cylinder and the other end fixed to the other end of the piston rod and which forms an air chamber around at least the piston rod. The reaction force adjustment member includes a cylindrical member which is provided on an outer circumference of the cylinder surrounded by the diaphragm when the suspension is extended and compressed. An outer circumference surface of the cylindrical member has an uneven surface.
Abstract:
A damper with an air spring includes: a damper main body having a cylinder and a piston rod inserted into the cylinder; and a cylindrical diaphragm attached to a side of the cylinder at a first end thereof and to a side of the piston rod at a second end thereof and forming an air chamber around the damper main body, in which a first attachment case to which the first end of the diaphragm is attached is fitted on an outer periphery of the cylinder, and an inner-diameter step portion of the first attachment case is brought into abutting contact with an upper end portion of the cylinder in an axial direction thereof, while a second attachment case to which the second end of the diaphragm is attached is fixed to the piston rod.
Abstract:
A steering apparatus includes: an output shaft that outputs a steering force to wheels of a vehicle; a steering arm which turns about the output shaft, and to which two tie rods, to which the wheels are respectively connected, are attached; a stopper which is provided in a vicinity of the output shaft, and restricts an angle of the turning of the steering arm; a worm wheel that is fixed to the output shaft; a worm that is driven by a motor, and meshes with the worm wheel; a bearing that rotatably support the worm; a housing that holds the bearing; and a worm damper that is provided at an axial inner side or an axial outer side of the bearing in an axial direction of the worm, and is elastically deformable so as to move the worm in the axial direction, as defined herein.
Abstract:
A hydraulic shock absorber includes a valve body having a second valve which is fixed to the valve body on a central axis CL side of the second valve and covers an open end of a second oil passage in the valve body. The second valve is deformable in a direction away from the valve body when the valve is applied with force from the valve body side. The second valve is configured: (a) to include a first through-hole formed in a circumferential direction thereof, (b) have lower stiffness, with respect to force from the valve body side, on a second through-hole side than on a third through-hole side and (c) such that a first corner portion C1 of the first through-hole has higher stiffness than a second corner portion C2 of the first through-hole positioned on the third through-hole side.
Abstract:
A worm biasing structure biasing a worm engaged with a worm wheel includes a radial bearing and an elastic body. The radial bearing supports the worm in a radial direction. The elastic body has elasticity and biases the radial bearing toward the worm wheel in a biasing direction. The elastic body includes a low-spring rate elastic body and a high-spring rate elastic body having a higher spring rate than that of the low-spring rate elastic body in series in the biasing direction.
Abstract:
A trim and tilt device includes: a cylindrical cylinder; a partition member provided in contact with the cylinder so as to be movable in an axial direction of the cylinder and partitioning a space inside the cylinder; a rod member to which the partition member is attached on one end side of the rod member and which moves relatively in the axial direction of the cylinder together with the partition member thereby adjusting a tilt angle of a marine vessel propelling machine body with respect to a hull; and a rod guide member electrically connected to a sacrificial anode and having a hole so that the rod member passes through the hole, and the rod guide member has a conductive portion disposed at a position, where the hole is formed, so as to electrically connect the rod member and the rod guide member.