ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,026, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Vehicle steering system having multi-stage reduction mechanism" was invented by Troy Strieter (Bay City, Mich.) and Joshua Grove (Bay City, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle steering system comprises: an input shaft rotatable in response to an input for moving vehicle wheels; a motor generating torque to be supplied to an output shaft through a belt assembly; a gear assembly; a rotary-linear conversion mechanism, and a sector gear; and the rotary-linear conversion mechanism combining rotary motion of the input shaft and the torque transferr...