Patent ID: 7841443

Claim:
A steering apparatus including a pinion that rotates in accordance with an operation of a steering member, a rack shaft having a rack meshed with the pinion, and a support yoke resiliently coming into contact with the rack shaft from an opposite side of a meshed portion of the rack and the pinion so as to be provided with the rack shaft between the opposite side and the meshed portion, and being configured to convert rotation of the pinion into movement of the rack shaft in an axial direction, the steering apparatus comprising: a detection unit for detecting a force applied to the support yoke to which a force acting on the meshed portion is transmitted from the rack shaft; and a calculation unit for calculating a steering torque applied to the steering member based on the force detected by the detection unit, wherein the pinion and the rack are formed in helical gears, and the detection unit includes a plurality of force sensors disposed between the rack shaft and the support yoke.