TOOTHED RACK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TOOTHED RACK FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE

    公开(公告)号:US20190144026A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-16

    申请号:US16315912

    申请日:2017-07-04

    IPC分类号: B62D3/12 B21K1/76

    摘要: A rack may include a toothed portion having a toothing, and a shaft portion having a threaded portion with a coaxial thread that has a thread length in an axial direction of a longitudinal axis. Separate segments comprising at least one in each case bar-shaped toothed segment and one shaft segment are provided, are aligned on the longitudinal axis, and are connected to one another at a joint. A method for producing the rack may involve providing a shaft raw material piece having a piece length that is a multiple of a shaft segment length, generating a thread that is continuous in a longitudinal direction on the shaft raw material piece across a multiple of the thread length to produce a threaded semi-finished product, cutting to length a threaded segment from the threaded semi-finished product, providing a toothed segment, and joining the threaded segment to the toothed segment.

    Electromechanical power steering system

    公开(公告)号:US10252742B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-09

    申请号:US15328173

    申请日:2015-06-24

    摘要: An electromechanical power steering system for a motor vehicle may include a driving worm that is driven by an electric motor and acts on a worm gear that is coupled to a steering shaft. The driving worm may be mounted in such a way that it can rotate about its worm axis. More particularly, the driving worm may be mounted in a bearing that is held in a mount. The mount may prestress the driving worm in a direction of the worm gear. In some examples, the mount is torsionally weak about a torsion axis that is positioned perpendicularly with respect to the worm axis.

    EXTERNAL WATCHDOG WITH INTEGRATED BACKWARD REGENERATION SUPPORT

    公开(公告)号:US20190077451A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-14

    申请号:US16073277

    申请日:2016-02-05

    发明人: Zoltán THIMÁR

    IPC分类号: B62D5/04 G06F11/07 G05B19/042

    摘要: An electric power steering apparatus for assisting steering of a motor vehicle by conferring torque generated by an electric motor to a steering mechanism, includes a steering controller, which receives signals representative of at least the torque (TTS) applied to a steering wheel and determining a target motor torque (Td), with a microcontroller unit (MCU) and an electronic control unit (WD). A motor controller includes an inverter which transforms from target motor torque (Td) generated target voltages (U1) into motor currents (I1). The WD comprises a memory in which state variables of the MCU are stored and a timer which monitors a blackout time of the MCU, wherein the MCU and WD are linked via a communication bus and a reset line.

    MOTOR-ADJUSTABLE STEERING COLUMN FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE

    公开(公告)号:US20190031224A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-31

    申请号:US16077642

    申请日:2017-02-07

    发明人: Sebastian HUBER

    摘要: A motor-adjustable steering column including a supporting unit which is connectable to a vehicle body and by which an actuating unit is held which includes a steering spindle mounted in a casing unit to be rotatable about a longitudinal axis. The casing unit has an outer casing tube, in which an inner casing tube is accommodated to be axially displaceable telescopically in the direction of the longitudinal axis. An actuating drive is connected to the inner casing tube and the outer casing tube by which the inner casing tube may be displaced axially in and out relative to the outer casing tube. A feature arranged between the outer casing tube and the inner casing tube generates a frictional force between outer casing tube and inner casing tube with regard to relative displacement which is adjustable between a release position and at least one friction position.

    STRAY MAGNETIC FIELD COMPENSATION FOR A ROTOR POSITION SENSOR

    公开(公告)号:US20180323738A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-08

    申请号:US15771672

    申请日:2012-12-02

    发明人: Roland GÉMESI

    摘要: A method may be used to error compensate a measurement of an electric motor's rotor position in a power steering system of a motor vehicle. The electric motor generates torque for assisting steering of the motor vehicle, and stray magnetic fields of motor currents affect the measurement of the rotor position with a magneto-resistive rotor position sensor. The method may involve calculating at least two compensation values based on a current vector, rotor position, and hardware dependent parameters. The at least two compensation values account for errors in the rotor position measurement due to stray magnetic fields of motor currents. The method may also involve calculating a compensated rotor position signal by subtracting the at least two compensation values of the measured rotor position, as well as transferring the compensated rotor position signal as part of a feed-back loop to a target motor torque determination in the motor control.

    STEERING COLUMN FOR A STEER-BY-WIRE STEERING DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20180319419A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-08

    申请号:US15775252

    申请日:2016-12-01

    IPC分类号: B62D1/181

    摘要: An adjustable steering column for a steer-by-wire steering device may include an actuating unit that comprises a steering spindle mounted rotatably about a longitudinal axis in a casing unit. The casing unit may have a first casing tube in which a second casing tube is arranged in a rotationally fixed manner with respect to the longitudinal axis and is mounted so as to be movable axially in a telescopic fashion. An actuating drive is connected to the first casing tube and the second casing tube and can move the second casing tube relative to the first casing tube. The actuating drive may comprise a spindle drive with a threaded spindle that is parallel to the longitudinal axis, rotatably drivable by a servomotor, supported on and extending within the first casing tube, and screwed into a spindle nut attached in a rotationally fixed manner to the second casing tube.

    CLAMPING DEVICE OF AN ADJUSTABLE STEERING COLUMN FOR MOTOR VEHICLES

    公开(公告)号:US20180290680A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-11

    申请号:US15754214

    申请日:2016-08-09

    发明人: Sebastian HUBER

    IPC分类号: B62D1/184 B62D1/189 B62D1/19

    CPC分类号: B62D1/184 B62D1/189 B62D1/197

    摘要: A clamping device may include clamping jaws that selectively clamp a steering column tube that is adjustable. A clamping pin may connect the clamping jaws. Rotation of the clamping pin in a closure direction causes the steering column tube to be clamped between the clamping jaws, and rotation of the clamping pin in an opening direction releases the clamping jaws for adjustment of the steering column tube. A damping member may be disposed on the clamping pin and connected to the clamping pin in a frictionally engaging or resilient manner. The damping member may comprise a stop tongue that protrudes radially from the clamping pin. When the clamping pin rotates in the opening direction, the stop tongue moves into abutment with the steering column tube and prevents rotation of the damping member so that the rotation of the clamping pin in the opening direction occurs counter to the friction force or resilient force and is damped.”

    MOTOR-ADJUSTABLE STEERING COLUMN FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE

    公开(公告)号:US20180251147A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-06

    申请号:US15754055

    申请日:2016-08-02

    IPC分类号: B62D1/181 B62D1/183 B62D1/185

    摘要: A motor-adjustable steering column may include a support unit that is connectable to a vehicle body and holds an adjustment unit. The adjustment unit may include a steering spindle mounted in a casing unit rotatably about a longitudinal axis. The casing unit may include an outer casing tube that receives an inner casing tube in an axially displaceable, telescopic fashion. An adjustment drive may be connected to the inner and outer casing tubes. The inner casing tube can be retracted and deployed axially relative to the outer casing tube. An intermediate casing tube may be disposed coaxially between the inner and outer casing tubes so as to be axially displaceable in telescopic fashion relative to the inner and outer casing tubes. The intermediate casing tube can be axially retracted and deployed relative to the inner and outer casing tubes by the adjustment drive.