Abstract: In a tripod type constant velocity universal joint, a groove-orthogonal sectional shape of a ceiling surface of a raceway groove of an outer ring is a line shape passing through a central highest point, a positive rotation edge highest point, and a negative rotation edge highest point. The central highest point is a point when a roller pitches by a predetermined pitching angle. The positive rotation edge highest point is a point when the roller rolls in a positive direction by a predetermined rolling angle. The negative rotation edge highest point is a point when the roller rolls in a negative direction by a predetermined rolling angle.

Abstract: A steering shaft is rotatably provided inside an outer column and an inner column. A key lock collar is mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the steering shaft, the outer peripheral surface facing the outer column. The key lock collar includes a key lock collar body and a cylindrical portion. Multiple concave parts and convex parts extending in the axial direction are provided on an outer peripheral part of the key lock collar body along the circumferential direction. A lock key is engaged with the concave parts from adjacent to the outer column, and thus the rotation of the steering shaft with respect to the outer column is restricted. An outer diameter of the cylindrical portion is smaller than an outer diameter of the convex parts and larger than an outer diameter of the concave parts.

Abstract: A groove-orthogonal sectional shape of a ceiling surface of a raceway groove of an outer ring of a tripod type constant velocity universal joint is a line shape including at least part of a target contour line located away from a central axis of the outer ring in a contour line obtained by projecting a roller end face in an axial direction of the outer ring when a roller pitches by a predetermined angle.

Abstract: A magnetic yoke assembly includes a pair of yoke cores, an annular collar, and a tubular holder that holds the pair of yoke cores and the collar. The holder includes a gear portion that includes a plurality of external teeth protruding radially outward from the holder. The collar is disposed at the inner periphery of the gear portion. The axial range in which the collar is present in the holder overlaps the axial range in which the gear portion is provided in the holder.

Abstract: A steering control device includes: a target rotation angle calculation circuit that calculates a target rotation angle of a shaft; an offset angle calculation circuit that calculates an offset angle relative to the target rotation angle; a final target rotation angle calculation circuit that calculates a final target rotation angle of the shaft; and a feedback control circuit that executes feedback control that adapts a real angle to the final target rotation angle. The offset angle calculation circuit calculates an estimated rotation angle deviation based on a value of a current of a turning motor immediately before a specific event occurs, and calculates the offset angle by subtracting the real angle and the estimated rotation angle deviation from the target rotation angle.

Abstract: A pressure reduction valve includes a body including a gas passage, a valve seat provided in the gas passage, and a valve member provided on a downstream side of the valve seat in the gas passage. The gas passage includes a primary-side passage section located on an upstream side of the valve member, and a secondary-side passage section located on a downstream side of the valve member. The primary-side passage section includes a pressure chamber, which is a space formed between the valve member and the valve seat. The valve member includes a valve member passage that connects the pressure chamber to the secondary-side passage section, and an auxiliary passage configured to assist gas that flows into the pressure chamber through a clearance between the valve member and the valve seat to flow out to the secondary-side passage section.

Abstract: A steering control device includes an electronic control unit configured to calculate a target reaction torque that is a target value of a steering reaction force that is a force against steering input to a steering unit and to control operation of a steering-side motor provided in the steering unit such that a motor torque corresponding to the target reaction torque is generated. The electronic control unit is configured to calculate an angle axial force, as an axial component based on an axial force acting on a turning shaft that operates to turn turning wheels, the angle axial force being an axial force in which road-surface information is not reflected, and the angle axial force being determined according to an angle convertible to a turning angle of the turning wheels. The electronic control unit is configured to perform a guard process such that the angle axial force is not excessive.

Abstract: A steering device that holds a steering member in such a manner that the steering member is movable between an advanced position where a driver can steer the steering member and a retracted position located closer to the front of a vehicle. The steering device includes: a fixed member attached to a vehicle body; a movable member to which a steering shaft holding the steering member is rotatably attached; and an upper guide mechanism and a lower guide mechanism that linearly guide the movable member with respect to the fixed member. An end on the advancing side of the upper guide mechanism is located further toward the advancing side than an end on the advancing side of the lower guide mechanism in an advancing and retracting direction of the movable member.

Abstract: A steering control device includes a controller configured to control driving of a motor that generates a torque. The torque is a torque applied to a steering mechanism of a vehicle using electric power from at least any one of an in-vehicle main power source and an auxiliary power source that backs up the main power source. The controller is configured to wait for the auxiliary power source to be charged to an extent that the main power source is able to be backed up and to permit the vehicle to travel when the controller is activated with an activation operation for the vehicle as a trigger and transitions to a state where control of the motor is executable.

Abstract: A steering control device is configured to control a steering device. The steering device includes a turning shaft and a turning motor. The turning shaft is configured to turn a turning wheel of a vehicle. Dynamic power transmission between the turning shaft and a steering wheel is separated. The steering control device includes a processing device. The processing device is configured to control drive of the turning motor depending on a steering state of the steering wheel. The processing device is configured to execute a lock process based on a command from an exterior, in a state where the steering device is equipped in the vehicle. The lock process is a process of driving the turning motor such that the position of the turning shaft is kept at a particular position.

Abstract: A steering column device includes a lower tube that is attached to a vehicle body so as to be pivotable in an up-down direction, a column shaft to which a steering wheel is attached, an upper tube that rotatably supports the column shaft and that also is attached to the lower tube so as to be movable in a front-rear direction, a motor for generating motor torque, a link mechanism that couples the lower tube and the upper tube so as to be capable of moving in conjunction, and a power transmission mechanism that acts to transmit the motor torque to the link mechanism. The link mechanism causes the pivoting of the lower tube in the up-down direction and the movement of the upper tube in the front-rear direction to be performed in conjunction, when the motor torque is transmitted to the link mechanism by the power transmission mechanism.

Abstract: A steering control device controls a steering device. The steering device includes a processor configured to execute a dead band amount calculation process and a superposition process. The dead band amount calculation process is a process of calculating a dead band amount using a steering angle as an input, the dead band amount being an amount by which the steering angle changes while a turning wheel does not turn in a steering direction. The superposition process is a process of superposing a dead band compensation torque on the torque of a motor, when the magnitude of the dead band amount is larger than zero. The dead band compensation torque is a torque that increases the torque of the motor in a direction in which the turning wheel turns depending on rotation of a steering shaft.

Abstract: A software processing device of a steering control device is configured to execute a sampling process, a turning angle calculation process, and a control constant learning process. The sampling process is a process of sampling a steering angle and a yaw rate in synchronization. The turning angle calculation process is a process of calculating a turning angle of the turning wheel, using the yaw rate and a vehicle velocity as inputs. The control constant learning process is a process of learning a control constant based on a plurality of combinations each of which is constituted by the steering angle sampled by the sampling process and the turning angle corresponding to the steering angle. The control constant is a constant that indicates a rotational displacement of the turning wheel with respect to a rotational displacement of the steering shaft.

Abstract: A toothed pulley includes a cylindrical metallic core and a resin portion including teeth. The metallic core has, at one end thereof in the axial direction, an outward flange projecting outward in the radial direction. The outward flange has a radially outer peripheral surface that is a rotation prevention shape having a plurality of parts displaced inward in the radial direction from a cylindrical surface of the radially outer peripheral surface. The radially outer peripheral surface of the outward flange is covered by the resin portion.

Abstract: A steering torque control process includes a process of calculating a manipulated variable for controlling steering torque to target steering torque by using a proportional element and a derivative element according to a difference between the steering torque and the target steering torque. At least one of the two elements, namely the proportional element and the derivative element, includes an enlarging phase controller. The enlarging phase controller is a controller that enlarges a degree to which a phase of the derivative element is advanced with respect to a phase of the proportional element.

Abstract: A gear manufacturing apparatus for machining a gear workpiece wherein, when at least one of end regions in a tooth trace direction of each tooth of the workpiece is machined, a control device executes a specific machining control for adjusting a relative position of a tool to the workpiece based on information about the relative position computed by setting, as a machining reference position, a position of the tool on an outer edge line in an X-axis-orthogonal cross section different from a normal machining point such that a distance between a center of the tool and a center of the gear workpiece in the X-axis-orthogonal cross section when the at least one of the end regions is machined is larger than when the at least one of the end regions is machined by setting the normal machining point as the machining reference position.

Abstract: A steering control system that controls a steering device of a vehicle includes a storage unit, and a control unit configured to make a state transition to a normal control state via a start-up state after a power source system of the vehicle is started. In the start-up state, the control unit executes a correction information storing process of acquiring correction element information using a state variable obtained from the steering device and writing correction information obtained based on the correction element information into the storage unit. In the start-up state, the control unit is configured to execute an abnormal condition determination process of determining whether an abnormal condition indicating that the correction information is abnormal is met. The correction information storing process is re-executed when the abnormal condition is met. The abnormal condition determination process is executed at least either before or after the correction information storing process.

Abstract: A vehicle steering system has a power transmission path cut off between a steering unit that is steered by a steering wheel of a vehicle and a turning unit that operates to turn a turning wheel of the vehicle. A steering control device for the vehicle steering system includes a processor that controls operation of the turning unit. The processor executes a target turning angle calculation process of, based on a steering angle representing a rotation position of the steering wheel, calculating a target turning angle that is a target of a turning angle representing a turning position of the turning wheel and is a control amount for operating the turning unit.

Abstract: A steering control device includes: a target steering corresponding value calculation unit that calculates a target steering corresponding value so that the ratio of the amount of change in steered angle to the amount of change in amount of operation of an operating member becomes greater than 1; a control signal generation unit that generates a control signal; and a mode switch unit that switches a control mode. The mode switch unit performs: an operation determination process of determining whether an operation condition for detecting a valid operation performed on the operating member by a driver is satisfied during an autonomous driving control mode; and a mode switching process of switching the control mode to a manual driving control mode when the operation condition is satisfied. The operation determination process includes a process of determining an unintended operation by the driver to be invalid.