PURPOSE: To raise the turning ability of a car at low speed and the stability of the car at high speed, by setting a spring force adjusting means which decreases toe-in tendency in response to ever increasing trend of the front wheel steering angle beyond the preset degree.
CONSTITUTION: A spring force adjusting means 40 is constructed of the first to the fifth gears 42W48, and a case 41 which contains these gears and others. A shaft 50, one end of which has a pinion 5c, engaged with the second rack 4c formed on the rack 4b of the front wheel steering device 1, is set, and at the other end of this shaft 50, the first gear 42 is fixed. In this way, the rotation of the shaft 50 is transmitted from the first gear 42 to the second gear 43, but a shaft 44 is separated from the second shaft 45 until the first shaft 44 rotates by an angle α. Consequently, the rotation of the shaft 50 is transmitted to a torsion bar 32 through a torque transmitting member 49, as a torque which is proportional to the rotating angle of an input shaft.
TAKATANI TERUHIKO
FURUYA SHIGEKI
CHIKUMA ISAMU
SHIMADA SATORU
EDA HIROSHI
NIPPON SEIKO KK
| JPS58214469A | 1983-12-13 | |||
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