Abstract: A steering device includes a pipe, a housing, a telescopic mechanism, and a load absorbing mechanism. The load absorbing mechanism includes an extending portion provided in the telescopic mechanism and extending in a front-rear direction, a first sliding portion provided on a first side in the left-right direction with respect to the extending portion, and a second sliding portion provided on a second side in the left-right direction with respect to the extending portion. The sliding portion includes a front pressing portion that comes into contact with a side surface of the extending portion, and a rear pressing portion provided behind the front pressing portion, and in which a distance in the left-right direction between the rear pressing portion and the other sliding portion facing the one sliding portion across the extending portion is shorter than a distance in the left-right direction between the front pressing portion and the other sliding portion.

Abstract: A steering device includes a pipe, a housing, a telescopic mechanism, and a load absorbing mechanism. The load absorbing mechanism includes an extending portion coupled to the telescopic mechanism and extending in a front-rear direction, a first sliding portion provided on a first side in a left-right direction with respect to the extending portion, and a second sliding portion provided on a second side in the left-right direction with respect to the extending portion.

Abstract: A stator includes a terminal unit disposed on a first side in an axial direction with respect to a stator main body, and the terminal unit includes a base extending in an arc shape in a circumferential direction following the stator main body, a first inner side engaging portion provided on an inner circumferential edge of the base, an outer side engaging portion provided on an outer circumferential edge of the base, and an arm extending from the outer circumferential edge of the base in the radial direction and continuous with the outer side engaging portion.

Abstract: A steering device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a column unit, a front bracket, a rear bracket, and a lock mechanism. The lock mechanism includes a rod supported by the column unit so as to be movable in a vertical direction in tilt guide holes in an unlocked state, and an operation portion that is fixed to a first side end portion of a rod in a right-left direction and that is used to operate of the rod. The first through-hole includes a first straight portion and a first tapered portion. The second through-hole includes a second straight portion and a second tapered portion.

Abstract: An electric pump includes a pump, a motor configured to drive the pump, a motor drive unit having a switching element and configured to drive the motor with electric power output from the switching element, and a control unit configured to output a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal for driving the switching element to the motor drive unit. The PWM signal output from the control unit, is used for monitoring a state of the motor. When the motor stops abnormally, the control unit sets a frequency of the PWM signal for use in monitoring the state of the motor to a frequency outside of a frequency band which is used when the motor is normal.

Abstract: A left-side side plate is integrally formed downward from an inner end of a left-side upper plate, and a right-side side plate is integrally formed downward from an inner end of a right-side upper plate. A front end of the left-side side plate and a front end of the right-side side plate are connected by a connection upper plate, and the left-side side plate, the connection upper plate, and the right-side side plate are formed continuously and integrally. A total length of the left-side upper plate and the right-side upper plate is formed shorter than a total length of the left-side side plate and the right-side side plate. The length totaling the left-side upper plate and the right-side upper plate is formed substantially equal to the length of the connection upper plate, and all of these members are press worked of a single metal plate.

Abstract: A control valve 8 according to the present disclosure includes a casing 21 in which an outlet for a liquid is formed and the liquid is accommodated, a rotor 22 rotatably accommodated in the casing 21 and having a communication port communicating with the outlet, and a sliding ring 131 having a sliding surface 141a sliding on an outer surface of the rotor in a state of being disposed inside the outlet and causing the outlet and the communication port to communicate with each other according to a rotation position of the rotor 22, in which a liquid holding portion for holding the liquid between the sliding surface 141a and the liquid holding portion is provided on the outer surface of the rotor 22, and the liquid holding portion has a recessed portion for accommodating the liquid.

Abstract: A steering device according to an aspect of the present invention includes an outer shaft, an inner shaft, an outer column, and an inner column. The inner shaft has a sliding portion configured to be capable of being inserted into the outer shaft, and a bearing-mounting portion that is connected to the sliding portion in an axial direction thereof and is configured not to be capable of being inserted into the outer shaft. In the bearing-mounting portion, rear bearings are disposed with an interval therebetween in the axial direction.

Abstract: A steering device includes an inner column, an outer column, a hanger bracket, and a fixing member. The hanger bracket has a guide hole which extends in the front-rear direction and through which the shaft portion of the fixing member passes. An edge portion of the guide hole is provided with a first region with which the seat portion of the fixing member comes into contact to fix the hanger bracket to the inner column and a second region which is disposed in front of the first region and faces the seat portion when the seat portion is displaced forward together with the inner column by a secondary collision load being input. A frictional restraining force between the seat portion and the edge portion of the guide hole in a state where the seat portion is displaced to a position opposite the second region is set to be smaller than a frictional restraining force between the seat portion and the edge portion of the guide hole at a position where the seat portion faces the first region.

Abstract: In a steering device according to an aspect of the present disclosure, a holding portion of a driven cam that is held in a tilt guide hole includes a lock contact portion that faces one side in a bolt circumferential direction and comes into contact with an inner peripheral edge of the tilt guide hole in a locked state to restrict the driven cam from rotating toward the one side in the bolt circumferential direction with respect to a rear side plate portion and a release contact portion that faces the other side in the bolt circumferential direction and comes into contact with the inner peripheral edge of the tilt guide hole in an unlocked state to restrict the driven cam from rotating toward the other side in the bolt circumferential direction with respect to the rear side plate portion.

Abstract: A steering device includes an inner column, an outer column, a hanger bracket, and a fixing member. The hanger bracket has a guide hole which extends in the front-rear direction and through which the shaft portion of the fixing member passes. An edge portion of the guide hole of the hanger bracket is provided with a fixing portion and a gradually increasing resistance portion. The seat portion of the fixing member comes into contact with the fixing portion to fix the hanger bracket to the inner column. The gradually increasing resistance portion is disposed in front of the fixing portion and gradually increases frictional resistance between the fixing member and the hanger bracket according to forward displacement of the fixing member when the fixing member is displaced forward together with inner column by a secondary collision load being input to the steering shaft.

Abstract: A control valve includes a casing, a valve body, seal tube members, a fuel passage, and a thermostat. The casing has an inflow port and a plurality of outflow ports. The valve body is rotatably disposed inside the casing, and valve holes are formed in a circumferential wall portion. The seal tube members communicate with the outflow ports, abut an outer circumferential surface of the circumferential wall portion, and are opened and closed by corresponding valve holes. Thermostat opens and closes the fuel passage in response to a detected temperature. A communication groove is formed on an inner circumferential surface of the casing. The communication groove causes the inflow port and an upstream portion of the fuel passage to communicate with each other by partially expanding a gap between the circumferential wall portion and the casing.

Abstract: An oil pump is configured to include a rotor, a drive shaft that drives the rotor to rotate, a rotor chamber in which the rotor is contained, an inlet port and an outlet port each provided in the vicinity of the rotor chamber, and a pump cover. The pump cover is made of a resin. On a portion of an outer surface side of the pump cover corresponding to an inner portion, in which oil circulates, of the pump cover, a rib that has an erecting wall shape is provided.

Abstract: In a steering device according to an aspect of the present disclosure, a load absorbing mechanism includes a large diameter shaft portion provided in an EA block, a long hole provided in a housing and guiding the large diameter shaft portion at the time of a secondary collision, a guide plate projecting inside the long hole and having a resistance portion plastically deformed by the large diameter shaft portion at the time of the secondary collision, and an EA guide overlapping the guide plate when viewed in a front-rear direction, provided in the EA block to be slidable on the guide plate at the time of the secondary collision, and formed of a material having a friction coefficient smaller than that of the EA block.

Abstract: A steering device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a column unit configured to rotatably support a steering shaft; a front bracket configured to rotatably support the column unit; a lock bolt configured to protrude in a right-left direction from the column unit; a rear bracket that includes a tilt guide hole and is attached to a vehicle body behind the front bracket, the tilt guide hole guiding the lock bolt to move upward and downward as the column unit rotates around an axis; and a connection piece bridged between the front bracket and the rear bracket in a state of being fixed to each of the front bracket and the rear bracket.

Abstract: In a steering device according to an aspect of the present disclosure, a driven cam includes a lock position restriction surface with which a cam portion of a drive cam engages in a locked state and a release position restriction surface that is provided to be separated front the lock position restriction surface in a bolt circumferential direction and that engages with the drive cam in the bolt circumferential direction in an unlocked state. The cam portion includes a sliding surface that faces the driven cam in the unlocked state and a flank surface that faces the release position restriction surface in the bolt circumferential direction. The angle of the flank surface with respect to the bolt circumferential direction is smaller than the angle of the release position restriction surface with respect to the bolt circumferential direction.

Abstract: A steering gearbox is equipped with a casing, a rack shaft, and a plurality of bushes. The rack shaft is accommodated in a casing to be movable in an axial direction. The plurality of bushes support the rack shaft to be movable in the axial direction and are attached to the casing.

Abstract: A motor control device includes an electric current detection result acquisition unit configured to acquire a result of detecting an electric current for operating a motor, an electric current determination unit configured to determine whether or not the electric current acquired by the electric current detection result acquisition unit is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, an operation time setting unit configured to set an operation time period corresponding to the electric current when the electric current determination unit determines that the electric current is greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold value, and an operation control unit configured to perform control for causing the motor to be continuously operated for the operation time period set by the operation time setting unit.

Abstract: A water pump includes a support portion provided with a bearing hole, and a pulley which is provided at one end of a rotation shaft and which is formed in a cylindrical shape with a bottom. The support portion includes an annular small-diameter portion provided with the bearing hole at the center, and an annular large-diameter portion. At least a part of the small-diameter portion is located at the pulley side relative to the large-diameter portion. An annular first clearance is formed between the cylindrical portion of the pulley and the large-diameter portion. A second cylindrical portion is provided on the bottom portion of the pulley. An annular second clearance is formed between the second cylindrical portion and the small-diameter portion.