Patent ID: 9630646
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: B62D,F16H,Y10T

Claim:
1. An apparatus for pressing a rack against a pinion of a steering gear assembly comprising: a housing; a support yoke slidably guided in the housing along an axis; a bearing element that is fixed to the housing in an axial direction; a first elastic element providing an axial load acting upon the support yoke and the bearing element to urge the support yoke against the rack; a wear-compensating abutment member coacting with the bearing element such that a relative rotation about the axis generates an axial displacement of the abutment member relative to the bearing element; and a separate, second elastic element providing a load acting upon the abutment member in a circumferential direction to urge the abutment member against the support yoke; wherein the abutment member is threadingly engaged with the bearing element; and wherein the bearing element has a male screw thread engaging a corresponding female screw thread of the housing; and wherein a left-handed thread is formed between the bearing element and the abutment member and a right-handed thread is formed between the bearing element and the housing or vice versa.