Patent 7631572 was granted and assigned to Showa Corporation on December, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In a ball circulating groove structure of a ball nut, a deflector is provided with an inner collar extending along a penetrating direction of a hole of the ball nut and engaging with the ball nut in a side of an inner surface of the ball nut, and an outer collar engaging with the ball nut in a side of an outer surface of the ball nut.