To provide a controller and a control method for a motor equipped with a plurality of energization systems each including a coil set of coils corresponding to a plurality of phases and an inverter for outputting a current to each of the phases in the coil set. The controller stops the inverter of a first energization system if the total phase current in the first energization system is an outlier. During a predetermined period after stopping the inverter of the first energization system, even if the total phase current in any other energization system is an outlier, the controller continues to operate the inverter of the other energization system. This makes it possible to continue to operate the inverter of a normal energization system as required as possible while stopping the inverter of an energization system having an abnormality such as a short-circuit or short-to-ground.

A device for pressing a first transmission element onto a second transmission element engaging in the first transmission element for a rack-and-pinion steering system of a motor vehicle. A pressure piece that can be loaded in the direction of the first transmission element by at least one spring element is displaceably guided in a housing. The spring element is produced from at least one dilatant elastomer.

In a steering system, a guide member faces the rack shaft on the opposite side of the rack shaft from the pinion shaft, and an opposed member faces the guide member at a first distance. The rack shaft is supported by the first rack bush so as to be slidable in the axial direction. The rack shaft is supported so as to be slidable in the axial direction X at a position closer to the guide member than the first rack bush is by the second rack bush disposed away from the inner surface. An elastic member that can be elastically deformed is disposed between the inner surface and the second rack bush. The second rack bush has an opposed portion disposed on the opposite side of the rack shaft from the pinion shaft and facing the inner surface at a second distance that is larger than the first distance.

A rack-and-pinion type steering apparatus 1 includes a pinion 2 which is rotatable in an R direction; a rack bar 4 which has rack teeth 3 meshing with the pinion 2 and is linearly movable in a sliding direction A; a gear box 5 for rotatably supporting the pinion 2 in the R direction; a rack guide 6 for slidably supporting the rack bar 4; and a resilient means 7 for pressing the rack guide 6 toward the pinion 2.

A yoke for a steering assembly that includes a rack shaft and a pinion gear disposed at a gear housing may include a first circumscribing groove extending around an outer diameter of the yoke to receive a first circumscribing O-ring to inhibit noise generation from contact between the yoke and the gear housing, and a first lateral groove disposed at a tip portion of the yoke between the pinion gear and the first O-ring assembly to receive a first lateral O-ring. The first circumscribing groove lies in a first plane substantially perpendicular to an axis of the yoke, and the first lateral groove lies in a second plane substantially perpendicular to the first plane on a first lateral side of the yoke.

A rack bar support device of a vehicle steering device is provided to render the left/right supporting forces for the support yoke to support the rack bar when the rack bar slides left and right, prevent noise due to impact, reversely coming from the road surface or a gap increased by the wear of the support yoke, and provide a comfortable sense of steering to the driver during steering.

A grease composition includes a urea-based thickener; a synthetic hydrocarbon oil and/or a mineral oil as a base oil, a kinematic viscosity of the base oil at 100 C. being 4 to 40 mm.sup.2/s; and 1 to 10% by mass of a montan wax, 1 to 5% by mass of a molybdenum-based extreme pressure agent, and 1 to 5% by mass of a sulfonate-based compound as additives, and the grease composition has a consistency of 310 to 430. The grease composition is for use in lubrication between a metal member and a metal member and lubrication between a metal member and a resin member.

A rack bar support device of a vehicle steering device is provided to render the left/right supporting forces for the support yoke to support the rack bar when the rack bar slides left and right, prevent noise due to impact, reversely coming from the road surface or a gap increased by the wear of the support yoke, and provide a comfortable sense of steering to the driver during steering.

A grease composition includes a urea-based thickener; a synthetic hydrocarbon oil and/or a mineral oil as a base oil, a kinematic viscosity of the base oil at 100 C. being 4 to 40 mm.sup.2/s; and 1 to 10% by mass of a montan wax, 1 to 5% by mass of a molybdenum-based extreme pressure agent, and 1 to 5% by mass of a sulfonate-based compound as additives, and the grease composition has a consistency of 310 to 430. The grease composition is for use in lubrication between a metal member and a metal member and lubrication between a metal member and a resin member.

Proposed is a rack guide which achieves a stable feed of a lubricant from a rack bar to a lubricant retaining groove when the rack bar slides against the rack guide. A lubricant retaining groove is arranged in the supporting surface, the lubricant retaining groove being configured to extend in a rack guide transverse direction perpendicular to a rack guide longitudinal direction and retain a lubricant located between a rack bar and a supporting surface. The lubricant retaining groove has a ship-bow-shaped lubricant introducing area into which the lubricant is introduced and a lubricant retaining area connected to the lubricant introducing area and configured to retain the lubricant introduced from the lubricant introducing area. The lubricant retaining area of the lubricant retaining groove is provided in a contact area of the supporting surface.