Marine Ram-Type Steering Gears Maintainability Increasing

Abstract

The structure of steering gear’s HATLAPA mechanism is analyzed. It is shown that presence of redundant constraints in it increases laboriousness of gear montage and respectively worsen maintainability. On the basis of provided analysis developed mechanism with reduced more than twice redundant constrainsts number.

Keywords

• steering gear
• redundant constraints
• mechanism
• laboriousness
• maintainability
• self-alignment