EPS(Electric Power Steeing) has been a popular system in the automotive industry since 2000 after the technology and safety was validated. The Korean Refrigerated Carts like Hankook Yogurt Coco was developed for the first time in the world. However this carts system and other small tranporting carts has no EPS. Thus the drivers of carts needed a EPS to avoid the burden when steeing a big weighted cart with 750Kgf as many women drivers complain the pain on their shoulders. This paper describes the application of EPS on Korean refrigerated carts with simulation results and experimental data shows the improvement of steering efforts.

In the power steering systems used for automobiles, because of its small size and low noise, a balanced type hydraulic vane pump is mainly used as a power source. Therefore it is requested to research on the lubrication characteristics of a oil hydraulic vane pump which is the key part to improve its performance. The performance of a oil hydraulic vane pump is influenced by the lubrication characteristics of the critical sliding components. Thus, lubrication characteristics between the shaft and the journal bearing have to be researched for the design and the performance improvement of a oil hydraulic vane pump. Therefore, in this paper, it is theoretically investigated that the lubrication characteristics between the shaft and the journal bearing of a balanced type oil hydraulic vane pump for power steering systems. The results demonstrate that lubrication characteristics are significantly influenced by the clearance between the shaft and the journal bearing.

In commercial vehicles. the pulsation noise when the power steering operating is the major item to make the complain for users. If this noise have related to vibration characteristics in steering system's parts or assembly, it makes the problem in vehicle quality. Recently, the users demand the high quality in commercial vehicles, and we must identified the relevance between the pulsation noise and the vibration characteristics. After the identification, we can design the power steering system for satisfaction the user’s needs. Finally, the identification of relevance in pulsation noise for analysing the vibration characteristics will be suggested advanced power steering system.

Most of the commercial vehicle steering system is hydraulic. In this system, Breakage and leakage of oil tank is the cause of serious problems to inhibiting the vehicle direction control of the driver. In this paper, FSI(Fluid-Structure Interaction) analysis was performed considering the sloshing of oil in the tank for structural safety evaluation of the power steering oil tank. Additionally, vibration analysis of simple and fast evaluation method was performed by assuming the fluid to mass. As a result, sloshing analysis of oil in the tank was confirmed from the FSI vibration analysis, and it could get the distribution of the flow pressure 8.2kPa～-5.5kPa. Second, stress change of the FSI vibration analysis results was greater in the 33.6MPa to 0.25MPa during the transitional period 2cycle, then it showed a stable result. Third, maximum stress of FSI vibration analysis considering sloshing of the oil was 2.22MPa. maximum stress of vibration analysis assuming the fluid to mass was 4.50MPa and 103% higher than the FSI vibration analysis, but the oil tank was safely evaluate structurally safety factor 14.1. Finally, without the FSI vibration analysis by applying a weight of 0.5 to the result of vibration analysis assumes fluid to mass, it could be obtained results similar to FSI vibration analysis.

Most of the commercial vehicle steering system is hydraulic. In this system, Breakage and leakage of oil tank is the cause of serious problems to inhibiting the vehicle direction control of the driver. In this paper, FSI(Fluid-Structure Interaction) analysis was performed considering the sloshing of oil in the tank for structural safety evaluation of the power steering oil tank. Additionally, vibration analysis of simple and fast evaluation method was performed by assuming the fluid to mass. As a result, sloshing analysis of oil in the tank was confirmed from the FSI vibration analysis, and it could get the distribution of the flow pressure 8.2kPa～-5.5kPa. Second, stress change of the FSI vibration analysis results was greater in the 33.6MPa to 0.25MPa during the transitional period 2cycle, then it showed a stable result. Third, maximum stress of FSI vibration analysis considering sloshing of the oil was 2.22MPa. maximum stress of vibration analysis assuming the fluid to mass was 4.50MPa and 103% higher than the FSI vibration analysis, but the oil tank was safely evaluate structurally safety factor 14.1. Finally, without the FSI vibration analysis by applying a weight of 0.5 to the result of vibration analysis assumes fluid to mass, it could be obtained results similar to FSI vibration analysis.

There are many causes of interior noise in commercial vehicles. The one of them is power steering noise and this study try to reduce the power steering noise by theoretical consideration. The interior noise was tested for the real truck and analysed the frequency. For reducing the interior noise, the spiral tube was adapted and modified the structure in the steering system. The spiral tube system was analysed and made the formula to calculate the reducing frequency. And the effective frequency for reducing the interior noise was calculated by changing the length of tube. Finally, we found the possibility between thoeretical results and real interior noise by comparing the frequency results. The second, the experimental consideration will be worked in power steering system. Finally, the optimal design result will be suggested for reduce the noise.

Steering gear is the part of an automobile that change circular movement of steering wheel to lateral movement of rack to change driving direction. This can be classified with manual and power steering gear. Manual steering gear is operated only with human power while power steering gear use oil pressure support. These days power steering gear is more common to almost of the car. Recently a korean company manufactures a speed sensitive power steering which provide variable steering feel depend on the speed of car. The Broens company of Australia produces and exports the test equipments for the manufacture of power steering valves and assemblies to major vehicle manufactures. Some korean companies imported the test equipments from Australia, thus increasing the cost. The purpose of this study is development of the valve balance test equipment to measure the valve torque of the power steering gear. This study designed and manufactured the valve balance test equipment to take hold of the power steering valve using CAE analysis. In order to evaluate the performance of the developed valve balance test equipment, the R&R tests have been conducted.

Power steering gear is the part of an automobile. That converts circular movement of steering wheel into lateral movement of rack for changing driving direction. Recently power steering gear gets more common. A Korean company manufactures a speed sensitive power steering gear, which provides variable steering feel depending on speed of the car. However, the Broens company in Australia produces and exports the test equipments for manufacturing power steering valves. Some Korean companies import the test equipments from Broens and the maintenance cost gets increasing. The purpose of this study is development of the valve balance tester to measure the valve torque of the power steering gear. This study designed and manufactured a chuck and a jig of the valve balance tester to take hold of the power steering valve using CAE analysis.