Patent ID: 7258035

Claim:
A rack and pinion steering device having a rack which is arranged in a housing and is connected at both ends to steerable wheels via track rods and steering arms, and having a pinion which engages continuously in the rack and is connected to the manual steering wheel via a steering column, and having stop means which are integrated at both ends between the housing and axially movable parts of the rack and pinion steering device and limit the axial movement of the rack in both steering directions, the stop means comprising elastically compliant material which is completely enclosed in nonelastic parts of the stop means which can move axially with respect to one another, and faces of a support component of the steering device are partially used in order to enclose the elastically compliant material, the elastically compliant material in each case at one end being embedded in a recess of the support component of the steering mechanism and at the other end is surrounded by a flange which can move axially to a limited extent.