Steering column for vehicle
AssigneeMando Corporation
InventorsHyunBi KWON, Sang Hyun PARK
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Abstract
A steering column for a vehicle includes: a lower tube having a distance bracket; a plate bracket supported on both sides of the distance bracket and including a tilt slot hole, through which an adjustment bolt passes, a fixed gear having a first through hole through which the adjustment bolt passes; a movable gear engaged with the fixed gear to rotate with the fixed gear and comprising a second through hole, a second cam disposed on a surface facing the fixed gear, and a protrusion protruding toward the fixed gear from an extension on an outer circumferential side of the movable gear to be supported by an outer circumferential surface of the fixed gear; and an adjustment lever configured to rotate the movable gear during a tilting or telescopic operation.
Claims20
A steering column for a vehicle, comprising:
- a lower tube having a distance bracket on an outer circumferential surface of the lower tube;
- a plate bracket supported on both sides of the distance bracket, wherein the plate bracket has a tilt slot hole, through which an adjustment bolt passes;
- a fixed gear having a first through hole through which the adjustment bolt passes, wherein the fixed gear comprises:
- a guide protrusion, which is inserted into the tilt slot hole to be supported, on one side of the fixed gear;
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- a first cam disposed on another side of the fixed gear;
- a movable gear engaged with the fixed gear to rotate with the fixed gear, wherein the movable gear comprises:
- a second through hole, through which the adjustment bolt passes;
- a second cam disposed on a surface facing the fixed gear to be engaged with the first cam;
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- a protrusion protruding toward the fixed gear from an extension, which extends in a radial direction of the movable gear, on an outer circumferential side of the movable gear to be supported by an outer circumferential surface of the fixed gear;
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- an adjustment lever configured to rotate the movable gear during a tilting or telescopic operation.
A steering column for a vehicle, comprising:
- a fixing bracket having a first through hole through which an adjustment bolt passes, the fixing bracket comprising;
- an insertion protrusion, on one side of the fixing bracket, inserted into and supported in a tilt slot hole of a plate bracket;
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- a first support groove, on another side of the fixing bracket, radially spaced apart from the first through hole;
- a rotary plate engaged with the fixing bracket to rotate, and comprising:
- a second through hole through which the adjustment bolt passes;
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- a second support groove at a position opposite the first support groove on a surface facing the fixing bracket;
- a rotary support rod supported by the first support groove and the second support groove at both ends of the rotary support rod between the fixing bracket and the rotary plate;
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- an adjustment lever configured to rotate the rotary plate at a time of a tilting or telescopic operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.