ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,506, issued on March 24, was assigned to Oiles Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Rack guide and gear mechanism" was invented by Robert Hamrodi (Butzbach, Germany) and Kai Metzler (Butzbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a rack guide that can stably support a rack bar and avoid rattling noise occurrence, and a gear system using the same.A rack guide (30) have the following: a rack guide body (31) made of synthetic resin, which has a cylindrical shape with a front end face and has a guide surface (310) formed in the front end face so as to slide on a back (22) of a rack bar (20); supporting portions (32a, 32b) made of sy...