Dust cap for steering system
AssigneeHl Mando Corporation
InventorSeunghyun Bae
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Abstract
A dust cap for a steering system, the dust cap including a main body formed to provide an accommodation hole through which a shaft of the steering system passes, a bottom part disposed at an upper portion of the main body to support a dust packing to be in close contact with a vehicle part, and a vent member inserted into an opening at the bottom part, wherein the vent member is shaped to define a vent hole providing communication between an inner space of the bottom part and an outside of the vent member, and wherein a cross-sectional width of the vent hole gradually decreases along a downward direction.
Claims20
A dust cap for a steering system, the dust cap comprising:
- a main body formed to provide an accommodation hole through which a shaft of the steering system passes;
- a bottom part configured to support a dust packing to be in close contact with a vehicle part;
- and
- a vent member inserted into an opening at the bottom part,
- wherein:
- the vent member is shaped to define a vent hole providing communication between an inner space of the bottom part and an outside of the vent member;
- and
- a cross-sectional width of the vent hole gradually decreases along a downward direction toward the outside of the vent member.
A dust cap for a steering system, the dust cap comprising:
- a main body formed to provide an accommodation hole through which a shaft of the steering system passes;
- a bottom part configured to support a dust packing to be in close contact with a vehicle part;
- and
- a vent member provided in an opening at the bottom part and configured to provide communication between an inside and an outside of the dust packing;
- wherein the vent member includes a pair of flaps configured such that a gap between respective interior walls of the pair of flaps gradually decreases along a downward direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.