Steering booster device

US6782967B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann VDO AG · DE

Inventors

• Arthur Schäfert · Schwalbach, DE
• Gerald Scharf · Hattersheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 13, 2001
• Grant date: Aug 31, 2004
• Expiry date: Sep 13, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01L5/221
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a steering booster device, a torque-sensor shaft being provided between a first shaft carrying the steering wheel and a second shaft connected to the gear of the steering booster, at least one end of the torque-sensor shaft is supported flexibly in the first or second shaft by at least one damping element.