Patents Assigned to JTEKT CORPROATION
  • Patent number: 10663043
    Abstract: There provides a ceiling surface of a deflector which secures an allowance for engagement between a rolling ball and a retainer. A ball screw device includes a ball screw shaft, a ball nut, a deflector forming a coupling passage, a rolling ball, and a retainer. The coupling passage is defined by an outer circumferential ball rolling groove, a ridge, and a ceiling surface. The ceiling surface has a first rounded portion at which a projected shape of the ceiling surface seen in an axial direction has a first radius of curvature at least such that a constant first clearance is provided between the rolling ball and the ceiling surface, and a second rounded portion at which the projected shape has a second radius of curvature smaller than the first radius of curvature and which is located on a groove bottom side of the outer circumferential ball rolling groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPROATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro Asakura, Takuya Nakayama, Keisuke Ogawa