Steering device
AssigneeJtekt Corporation
InventorsYasuyuki NOZAWA, Ryosuke YAMAGUCHI, Yoshihiro OONO, Ryoichi TOKIOKA
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Abstract
A steering device that holds a steering member in such a manner that the steering member is movable between a first position where a driver can steer the steering member and a second position located closer to the front of a vehicle includes: a fixed member attached to a vehicle body; a movable member movably attached to the fixed member via a rail mechanism; a steering shaft attached to the movable member and rotatably holding the steering member; and a reaction force device attached to the movable member at a position non-coaxial with the steering shaft and configured to apply a reaction force to the steering shaft.
Claims6
A steering device that holds a steering member in such a manner that the steering member is movable between a first position where a driver is able to steer the steering member and a second position located closer to a front of a vehicle, the steering device comprising:
- a fixed member attached to a vehicle body;
- a movable member movably attached to the fixed member via a rail mechanism;
- a steering shaft attached to the movable member and rotatably holding the steering member;
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- a reaction force device attached to the movable member at a position non-coaxial with the steering shaft and configured to apply a reaction force to the steering shaft, wherein
- the movable member includes a first movable portion on which the reaction force device is disposed, and a second movable portion on which the steering shaft is disposed, the first movable portion and the second movable portion are located next to each other in a width direction of the vehicle, and the first movable portion is longer toward the front of the vehicle than the second movable portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.