Abstract: A rack guide bearing for meshing a pinion and vehicle steering system rack, the guide bearing including a wall, a first portion is tubular and defines an axis and internal channel around the axis opening at the guide bearing first end, and opening onto a second portion of the wall opposite the first end, an internal channel section transverse to the axis and inserts the rack into the channel according to the rack axis parallel to the guide bearing axis, the guide bearing including an internal channel inner surface of the guide bearing wall's first portion and an inner surface of the guide bearing wall's second portion, the inner surfaces are in slipping contact with a slipping surface of the rack opposite to a toothing of the rack, when the rack is inserted inside the first portion of the wall's internal channel according to the axis of the rack.

Abstract: A method for magnetic braking of a steering column included in a steering system of a vehicle to facilitate installation and uninstallation of the driver in the vehicle and to protect angular mechanical stops arranged on either side of the steering column, said vehicle including a vehicle engine, said steering system including at least: the steering column connected to a steering wheel, the angular mechanical stops arranged on either side of the steering column, a force feedback module fixed to the steering column, said force feedback module including an electric motor, a reducer and a torque and/or angle sensor, said method including the magnetic braking of the steering column connected to the steering wheel applied by the electric motor of the force feedback module when said electric motor of the force feedback module is not powered.

Abstract: A speed reducer includes: a case, a worm disposed in a housing of the case and including a proximal portion coupled to an input shaft, a worm wheel coupled to an output shaft and arranged so as to be driven in rotation by the worm, a proximal bearing holding the proximal portion of the worm in the housing, a distal bearing holding a distal portion of the worm, the distal bearing being disposed in a cylindrical distal portion of the housing, a spring held fixed in the distal portion of the housing around the distal bearing, the spring including at least one elastic blade disposed and shaped to bear on the case and to exert forces on the distal bearing in a direction towards the worm wheel.

Abstract: A rack guide bearing for meshing a pinion and vehicle steering system rack, the guide bearing including a wall, a first portion is tubular and defines an axis and internal channel around the axis opening at the guide bearing first end, and opening onto a second portion of the wall opposite the first end, an internal channel section transverse to the axis and inserts the rack into the channel according to the rack axis parallel to the guide bearing axis, the guide bearing including an internal channel inner surface of the guide bearing wall's first portion and an inner surface of the guide bearing wall's second portion, the inner surfaces are in slipping contact with a slipping surface of the rack opposite to a toothing of the rack, when the rack is inserted inside the first portion of the wall's internal channel according to the axis of the rack.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wheel, the method including a step of making a rim on a radially outer peripheral edge of a carrier core, during the step said carrier core, which extends from a radially inner wall forming a steering axis bore corresponding to the axis of rotation of the wheel, until the peripheral edge, is placed in a mold formed by at least one first portion and one second portion, then an injection material is injected by means of at least one injection nozzle so as to coat, by overmolding, at least partially said carrier core in order to form the rim, wherein after the injection of the injection material, the first portion of the mold and the second portion of the mold are brought closer to each other such that the injection material is compressed in the mold.

Abstract: A power steering system for a motor vehicle, having a steering column integrating an upper shaft and an intermediate shaft rotatably linked and movable in translation relative to one another, an upper tube and a lower tube rotatably linked and movable in translation relative to one another, the upper shaft being movable in rotation and linked in translation within the upper tube, and an assist module integrating an output shaft linked in rotation with the intermediate shaft via a torsion bar, a reducer having a worm screw driven by an assist motor and which meshes on a worm wheel linked to the output shaft; and an angle measuring device having an inductive sensor carried by an annular support having a central orifice dimensioned so as to let the upper tube pass, a lower target securely mounted around the output shaft and an upper target.

Abstract: A power steering system for a motor vehicle, having a steering column integrating an upper shaft and an intermediate shaft rotatably linked and movable in translation relative to one another, an upper tube and a lower tube rotatably linked and movable in translation relative to one another, the upper shaft being movable in rotation and linked in translation within the upper tube, and an assist module integrating an output shaft linked in rotation with the intermediate shaft via a torsion bar, a reducer having a worm screw driven by an assist motor and which meshes on a worm wheel linked to the output shaft; and an angle measuring device having an inductive sensor carried by an annular support having a central orifice dimensioned so as to let the upper tube pass, a lower target securely mounted around the output shaft and an upper target.

Abstract: A power steering system for a motor vehicle, including a steering column integrating an upper shaft and an intermediate shaft connected in rotation and relatively movable in translation, an upper tube and a lower tube connected in rotation and relatively movable in translation, the upper shaft being movable in rotation and connected in translation in the upper tube, and an assist module integrating an output shaft connected in rotation to the intermediate shaft via a torsion bar, a reducer including a worm screw driven by an assist motor and which meshes on a tangent wheel connected to the output shaft; and an angle measuring device including an inductive sensor, a lower target mounted secured to the output shaft and an upper target secured to an upper lateral face of a core made of a plastic material of the tangent wheel.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for protecting a steering mechanism of a vehicle, said device comprising a housing element defining a chamber of which the wall is perforated with at least one access opening, and a plastic cap that shuts said access opening, said cap having, along the director axis (XX?) thereof, a stepped structure comprising a hub, which is engaged in a bore of the access opening and carries a sealing lining that engages with said bore, then a collar, of which the overall diameter is greater than the diameter of the bore, said collar being engaged by snap-fitting into a stop groove hollowed into the housing element, and forming a baffle deflector of which the diameter is greater than that of the bore.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for protecting a steering mechanism of a vehicle, said device comprising a housing element defining a chamber of which the wall is perforated with at least one access opening, and a plastic cap that shuts said access opening, said cap having, along the director axis (XX?) thereof, a stepped structure comprising a hub, which is engaged in a bore of the access opening and carries a sealing lining that engages with said bore, then a collar, of which the overall diameter is greater than the diameter of the bore, said collar being engaged by snap-fitting into a stop groove hollowed into the housing element, and forming a baffle deflector of which the diameter is greater than that of the bore.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device (1) for protecting a steering mechanism (2) of a vehicle, said device (1) comprising a housing element (5) defining a chamber (7) of which the wall (6) is perforated with at least one access opening (8), and a plastic cap (10) that shuts said access opening (8), said cap (10) having, along the director axis (XX?) thereof, a stepped structure comprising a hub (11), which is engaged in a bore (12) of the access opening (8) and carries a sealing lining (13) that engages with said bore (12), then a collar (14), of which the overall diameter (D14) is greater than the diameter (D12) of the bore (12), said collar (14) being engaged by snap-fitting into a stop groove (20) hollowed into the housing element (5), and forming a baffle deflector (21) of which the diameter (D21) is greater than that (D12) of the bore (12).