Servo steering system for motor vehicles

摘要

A servomotor drives a steering gear through a pair of clutch drums to provide power assist in the proper rotational direction upon engagement of one of the clutch drums in response to manual torque applied to a steering shaft causing torsional displacement between its shaft sections interconnected by a torsion bar. The clutch drums are continuously driven in opposite directions by the servomotor through gearing and are respectively engaged by jaws mounted on a pair of clutch carriers respectively keyed to the shaft sections of the steering shaft.