Steering column
AssigneeNamyang Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorsSung Jong Hong, Heung Joo Lee, Beom Suk Kim, Hee Chang Seo
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a steering column, including: an inner tube; an outer tube formed in a hollow shape into which the inner tube is inserted and including a pair of telescope guides protruding to an outer circumferential surface thereof, a first slit cut in an axial direction between the pair of telescope guides, and a second slit cut toward both sides of a circumferential direction at one end of the first slit; and a control lever installed on the telescope guides, wherein the telescope guides have a taper that is formed obliquely along a lengthwise direction, and the operating force of the lever is uniformly maintained according to the position of the control lever in the lengthwise direction by means of the taper.
Claims11
A steering column, comprising:
- an inner tube;
- an outer tube having a hollow into which the inner tube is inserted and including a pair of telescope guides protruding from an outer circumferential surface of the outer tube, a first slit cut in an axial direction of the outer tube between the pair of the telescope guides, and a second slit cut along a circumference of the outer tube at one end of the first slit;
- and
- a control lever installed on the pair of the telescope guides,
- wherein the pair of the telescope guides have a taper that is formed obliquely along a lengthwise direction, and an operating force of the lever is substantially uniformly maintained according to a position of the control lever in the lengthwise direction by means of the taper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.