Patent ID: 9499192
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: B62D,F16H,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A steering device comprising: a pinion shaft that has a pinion on an outer circumferential surface thereof; a rack shaft that has a rack that engages with the pinion; a rack housing that has a recess on an inner circumferential surface thereof and accommodates the rack shaft; a rack guide that has a protrusion formed smaller than a width of the recess in axial directions of the rack shaft, and is disposed inside the recess, the rack guide contacting an outer circumferential surface of the rack shaft and an inner circumferential surface of the rack housing, and guiding the rack shaft along an axis of the rack shaft; and a spacer that contacts one side and another side of the protrusion in the axial directions of the rack shaft, that contains a central part pressed by the protrusion outwardly in a radial direction of the rack shaft, and is disposed between an inner surface of the recess and an outer surface of the protrusion.