A recirculating-ball style gearbox for a vehicle steering system is provided. The gearbox has a rack with rack-teeth that are capable of providing variable ratio steering, where the rack-teeth are in mesh with the involute-teeth of a tapered sector gear. The involute-teeth of the sector gear have arrays of helical meshing lines extending across the meshing surfaces of the teeth, wherein the array of helical meshing lines have leads that decrease in length moving radially outward across the meshing surfaces.


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    Title :

    Tapered involute sector gear and variable ratio rack recirculating-ball style steering gearbox


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2016-05-24


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    F16H Getriebe , GEARING / B62D MOTOR VEHICLES , Motorfahrzeuge



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