Column housing for vehicle steering system
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorsJoon Mo Park, Un Jae Jung
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Abstract
A column housing for a vehicle steering system is made of synthetic resin and coupled outside a column tube of a steering column for the vehicle system, the column housing including: a slit which is formed to be elongated in a predetermined direction so that the column housing is deformed inward when the column housing is pressed on and fixed to the column tube positioned inside the column housing; and a first reinforcing portion which is formed so as to protrude outward at a predetermined portion from an end position of an end portion of the slit to the periphery of the slit where the slit is not formed, and has a shape having an increased thickness relative to other portions of the column housing.
Claims10
A column housing for a vehicle steering system, which is coupled outside a column tube of a steering column for the vehicle steering system, the column housing comprising:
- a slit which is formed to be elongated in a predetermined direction so that the column housing is deformed inward when the column housing is pressed on and fixed to the column tube positioned inside the column housing;
- and
- a first reinforcing portion which is formed to protrude outward from an end of the slit to the periphery of the slit in a ion in a longitudinal direction of the column house where the slit is not formed, and has a shape having an increased thickness relative to other portions of the column housing,
- wherein the first reinforcing portion is formed only at a portion of the column housing, which corresponds to a predetermined section A from the end of the slit to an intermediate portion of the column housing in the longitudinal direction of the column housing, the portion corresponding to the predetermined section A where the slit is not formed, wherein the column housing is made of synthetic resin.
A column housing for a vehicle steering system, which is coupled outside a column tube of a steering column for the vehicle steering system, the column housing comprising:
- a slit which is formed to be elongated in a predetermined direction so that the column housing is deformed inward when the column housing is pressed on and fixed to the column tube positioned inside the column housing;
- and
- a first reinforcing portion which is formed to protrude outward at a predetermined portion and has a shape having an increased thickness relative to other portions of the column housing,
- wherein the slit includes a first slit and a second slit, the first slit is formed in a circumferential direction of the column housing and the second slit is formed from the first slit in a longitudinal direction of the column housing, and the first reinforcing portion is formed only at a predetermined portion from an end opposite to an end that is connected with the first slit between both ends of the second slit to the periphery of the second slit in a longitudinal direction of the column housing where the second slit is not formed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.