A lubricant composition comprising a lubricating base oil, fine particles and a calcium sulfonate-based thickener, a speed reduction gear filled with the lubricant composition, and an electric power steering apparatus comprising the speed reduction gear are disclosed. It is possible to reduce the operating noise of a speed reduction gear regardless of the amount of backlash that occurs on combining a small gear and a large gear without a more complicate structure of the speed reduction gear by an action of the fine particles while preventing separation of oil by an action of the calcium sulfonate-based thickener added to the lubricant composition, and thus the noise in the inside of car generated by the electric power steering apparatus can be reduced with a low cost.
本发明公开了一种由润滑基础油、细颗粒和
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增稠剂组成的润滑油组合物、一种填充了该润滑油组合物的减速齿轮以及一种包含该减速齿轮的电动助力转向装置。通过添加到润滑油组合物中的
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增稠剂的作用防止油的分离,同时通过细颗粒的作用降低减速齿轮的工作噪音,而不考虑小齿轮和大齿轮组合时产生的间隙量,从而无需更复杂的减速齿轮结构,因此可以以较低的成本降低电动助力转向装置在汽车内部产生的噪音。