US 7,320,480 B2
Structure for fixing steering-gear housing
Tatsuyoshi Maruyama, Kanagawa (Japan); and Takahide Kaneko, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Unisia JKC Steering Systems, Co., Ltd., Kanagawa (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 24, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/807,349.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-086748 (JP), filed on Mar. 27, 2003; and application No. 2003-196913 (JP), filed on Jul. 15, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2004/0188589 A1, Sep. 30, 2004
Int. Cl. B62D 1/16 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 280—779  [248/230.6] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A structure for fixing a steering-gear housing to a vehicle-body member, comprising:
the vehicle-body member;
the steering-gear housing;
a first bracket comprising:
a first supporting face that is configured to support one circumferential side face of the steering-gear housing,
a first abutting face that is arranged at one circumferential end of the first bracket and that is configured to abut the vehicle-body member,
a first bolt hole arranged through the first abutting face, and
a second abutting face arranged axially opposite to the first abutting face through the first bolt hole;
a second bracket comprising:
a second supporting face that is configured to support another circumferential side face of the steering-gear housing,
a third abutting face that is arranged at one circumferential end of the second bracket and that abuts the second abutting face, and
a second bolt hole that is arranged through the third abutting face at a position corresponding to the first bolt hole and that is smaller in an axial length than the first bolt hole;
a member that secures another circumferential end of the first bracket and another circumferential end of the second bracket; and
a bolt that is arranged from the second bolt hole through the first bolt hole and that is configured to be inserted through a third bolt hole formed in the vehicle-body member to clamp together the first bracket, the second bracket, and the vehicle-body member,
wherein the first bracket comprises a protrusion that is arranged at an edge of the first abutting face and that is configured to be engaged in a recess formed in the vehicle-body member.