Shock absorbing steering column of low tilt type
AssigneeHyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
InventorByeong-Hoon Lee
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Abstract
A vehicular steering column of a low tilt type is supported to a body at upper and lower portions thereof to be tilted in whole about a hinge joint located on the lower portion, and more particularly to a shock absorbing steering column is designed to allow a steering column to slide forward when a vehicle driver gets a secondary shock against a steering wheel due to a vehicular collision, thereby absorbing a shock. In particular, the steering column is constructed in such a manner that, in order to absorb a shock in case of the vehicular collision, shock absorbing means is provided to a lower supporting structure of the steering column, and thus an initial shock imposed on the driver can be greatly decreased.
Claims6
A shock absorbing steering column of a low tilt type, the shock absorbing steering column having a steering shaft and a steering column tube for rotatably supporting the steering shaft, and supported by a body at upper and lower portions of the steering column to allow for tilt operation, the shock absorbing steering column comprising:
- a lower mounting bracket fixed to the body;
- a rotational bracket rotatably connected to the lower mounting bracket;
- a slide bracket fixed to the steering column tube and having a long hole formed along a longitudinal direction of the steering column tube;
- a connecting shaft passing through the long hole of the slide bracket and connected to the rotational bracket to support the slide bracket;
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- a shock absorber that allows the slide bracket and the connecting shaft to perform a sliding movement with respect to each other when a vehicular collision occurs and absorbing a shock during the sliding movement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.