A steering actuator apparatus for a vehicle, may include: a housing, a drive part supported by the housing and configured to generate a rotational force, a transmission shaft part installed to be movable in the housing and configured to change a steering angle of a wheel while reciprocating by receiving the rotational force from the drive part, a measurement part configured to measure the steering angle of the wheel while operating in conjunction with a movement of the transmission shaft part, and a rotation prevention part disposed between the housing and the transmission shaft part and configured to prevent a relative rotation between the housing and the transmission shaft part.

A steering device includes two motors each configured to generate a drive force that steers a steerable wheel of a vehicle and two controllers respectively corresponding to the two motors, each of the two controllers being configured to individually control a corresponding one of the motors. One of the two controllers is a first controller, and the other one of the two controllers is a second controller. The first controller is configured to calculate a command value corresponding to a total torque that should be generated in the two motors. The command value is divided into individual command values using a changeable distribution ratio set for each of the motors, the individual command values respectively corresponding to the motors. The two controllers are configured to respectively supply the motors with current corresponding to the individual command values.

A ball screw nut includes a nut part and a pulley part integrally molded with the nut part on the outer peripheral side of the nut part and having external teeth. The pulley part has a cylindrical portion extending in an axial direction and facing the nut part in a radial direction, and an extended portion extending radially inward from the cylindrical portion and facing the nut part in the axial direction. A restriction part for restricting relative rotation of the nut part and the pulley part is provided between a facing surface of the extended portion facing the nut part and a facing surface of the nut part facing the extended portion.

Provided is a power transmission device including a housing and a ball screw device including a nut housed in the housing. The device includes a screw shaft passing through the nut, and balls disposed between the nut and the screw shaft. The device also includes a first bearing and a second bearing that are disposed to be adjacent to each other in a center axis direction parallel with a center axis of the nut between the housing and the nut; and a preload applying member constituted of an elastic body and configured to apply preloads to the first bearing and the second bearing. The first bearing and the second bearing respectively include outer rings that are fitted to the housing and separated from each other in the center axis direction, and the first bearing and the second bearing are disposed to be a face-to-face combination.

The invention includes a first power supply connector, which connects a first inverter unit that supplies a drive current to a first three-phase winding of a rotary electric machine to a first vehicle power supply, and a second power supply connector, which connects a first second inverter unit that supplies a drive current to a second three-phase winding of the rotary electric machine to a second vehicle power supply, wherein a voltage of the first vehicle power supply is higher than a voltage of the second vehicle power supply, and a current capacity of the first power supply connector is smaller than a current capacity of the second power supply connector.

A steering axle for steering the wheels on the axle of a four-wheel forklift truck by a hydraulic or electric steering device. The steering axle has an axle beam with first and second wheel carriers. The wheel carriers are arranged pivotably on the axle beam. A steering rod is connected, in articulated fashion, to the two wheel carriers in order to transmit steering movements. A steering actuator produces the steering movement and has an actuator housing. The actuator housing has at least one guide section for the passage of the steering rod through the actuator housing. The steering actuator has at least one sliding bearing device for the radial support of the steering rod on the at least one guide section.

A power transmission device including a housing and a ball screw device including a nut, a screw shaft, and a plurality of balls. The device includes a pulley device including a driving pulley configured to be driven by receiving power transmitted from a power source, a driven pulley fixed to the nut, and a belt wound around outer peripheral surfaces of the driving pulley and the driven pulley. The device also includes a first bearing and a second bearing disposed between the housing and the nut in a center axis direction parallel with a center axis of the nut; and a preload applying member configured to apply preloads to the first bearing and the second bearing. The first bearing and the second bearing are respectively disposed on both sides of the driven pulley to be a face-to-face combination, and each of the first bearing and the second bearing includes an outer ring engaged with the housing.

A steering control device includes: an electric motor configured to apply an assist force to steering of a steering wheel; a torque sensor configured to detect steering torque of the steering wheel; a base target current setting unit configured to set a base driving force of the electric motor on the basis of the steering torque detected by the torque sensor; and an addition determination unit configured to determine whether a driving force larger than the base driving force is to be set, on the basis of a rotation speed of the electric motor.

A planetary roller screw drive for an actuator of a rear-axle steering system of a motor vehicle, including a planetary roller support which accommodates the planetary rollers and is connected to a drive sleeve for rotation therewith, which drive sleeve is driven rotatably about the screw spindle and is mounted rotatably on a machine part by an axial angular contact roller bearing which is arranged coaxially with respect to the drive sleeve and of which the rollers are in rolling contact with angled-bearing raceways which are inclined with respect to a plane arranged transversely with respect to the axis of rotation of the drive sleeve.

A steering control device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to calculate a target rotation angle of a shaft rotating with a turning operation of turning wheels based on a steering angle of a steering wheel acquired from a rotation angle of a reaction motor, to calculate a command value based on the target rotation angle and a steering torque acquired from a torsion angle of a torsion bar twisting with an operation of the steering wheel, and to compensate for the torsion angle by adding the torsion angle as a compensation value to the steering angle. The electronic control unit is configured to change a value of the torsion angle that is added to the steering angle according to a degree of change of a state variable used to calculate the command value.