MUMBAI, India, Sept. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441022251 A) filed by Zf Rane Automotive India Private Limited, Pudukottai, Tamil Nadu, on March 22, 2024, for 'double sector shaft hydraulic assist power steering gear for tractor applications.'
Inventor(s) include V. Prabhu Shankar; G. Praveen Kumar; P. Senthil Pandian; C. Shanmugam; and G. Dhinesh Kumar.
The application for the patent was published on Sept. 26, under issue no. 39/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed is a double sector shaft gear assembly (100) and system (200) for a hydraulic assisted power steering system that includes a primary sector shaft gear (2), including first gear teeth (11) and second gear teeth (13), a secondary sector shaft gear (4) with a gear teeth (12) configured to engage the first gear teeth (11) of the primary sector gear (2) and adapted to rotate the secondary sector shaft gear (4) in a clockwise direction when the primary sector shaft gear (2) rotates in counter clockwise direction and vice versa, and a rack piston (14) with gear teeth adapted to rotate the primary sector shaft gear (2), when the rack piston (14) moves in a linear direction. The rack piston (14) transfers hydraulic pressure to generate force to rotate the primary sector shaft gear (2) and the secondary sector shaft gear (4)."
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