IP Library Granted Patent US 8,348,009
Granted Patent B2
US 8,348,009 · App. 13/418,928 · Granted Jan 8, 2013

Steering device, particularly electric servo steering device for a motor vehicle

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Patent No.
US 8,348,009
App. No.
13/418,928
Granted
Jan 8, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A steering device, in particular an electric power-steering device for a motor vehicle, comprising an axially parallel drive which has a steering gearbox housing, a steering axle, a steering element, and at least one axle steering mechanism connected to the steering element, having a motor unit disposed on the steering gearbox housing, having a servo gearbox disposed in a gearbox cover and having a control unit for the motor unit, which is disposed in a control device housing. The control device housing of the control unit is disposed on one axially parallel side of the servo gearbox, and a motor housing of the motor unit is disposed on the other axially parallel side of the servo gearbox.

Claims (7)

1. A steering device for a motor vehicle, comprising an axially parallel drive which has a steering gearbox housing, a steering axle, a steering element, and at least one axle steering mechanism connected to the steering element, which comprises a motor unit disposed on the steering gearbox housing, comprising a servo gearbox disposed in a gearbox cover and a control unit for the motor unit disposed in a control device housing, the control device housing of the control unit being disposed on one axially parallel side of the servo gearbox, and a motor housing of the motor unit is disposed on the other axially parallel side of the servo gearbox.

2. The steering device according to claim 1 , wherein the control device housing and the motor housing are each equipped with a flange, wherein the servo gearbox is disposed between the two flanges.

3. The steering device according to claim 1 , wherein the control device housing and the motor housing are interconnected to the radial exterior of the servo gearbox.

4. The steering device according to claim 3 , wherein the control device housing and the motor housing are interconnected by way of the two flanges.

5. The steering device according to claim 3 , wherein the control device housing and the motor housing are interconnected by way of a threaded connection.

6. The steering device according to claim 1 , wherein the servo gearbox comprises a traction drive having a belt and a pulley.

7. The steering device according to claim 1 , wherein the motor unit comprises an electric motor, which is connected by way of a recirculating ball gear to a spindle section of a rack as the steering element.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 21, 2015
From: ZF LENKSYSTEME GMBH
To: ROBERT BOSCH AUTOMOTIVE STEERING GMBH
Reel/Frame 035749/0293 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 1, 2012
From: KNOEDLER, HELMUT; OCHS, MICHAEL; KOEHNLE, HANS
To: ZF LENKSYSTEME GMBH
Reel/Frame 028135/0069 →