Patent ID: 8291786

Claim:
A ball nut of a ball screw drive, in which the ball nut is mounted on a threaded spindle via balls, the ball nut, comprising: a ball groove with for the balls on an inner circumference, the ball groove being wound helically around a ball-nut axis and extending over at least one winding; and a deflection body being arranged on a circumferential face of the ball nut, deflection ends of the deflection body engaging, in each case, into a recess of the ball nut and adjoining an end and a start of the ball groove, and the deflection body being supported in radial directions on one side on the circumferential face of the ball nut and on the other side on a machine part which surrounds the ball nut, wherein the deflection body is connected integrally at axial ends to bearings for radial mounting on the machine part, the bearings, which project circumferentially, engaging into the recesses of the ball nut and being arranged with bearing faces approximately flush with an outer circumferential face of the ball nut.