Steering device
AssigneeYamada Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorsNaohiro Tagaya, Toru Ito, Kazuya Akaishi
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Abstract
Provided is a steering device including: a column pipe; an outer column; a fixing bracket; a hanger bracket that is fixedly attached to the column pipe; a biasing member that elastically biases the column pipe upward; a fastening jig; and a guide member which is made from a synthetic resin and has a sliding side portion, which is provided with a buffer protrusion and a bolt shaft hole, and a sliding bottom portion formed at the lower end of the sliding side portion. The buffer protrusion of the guide member 8 is inserted into a telescopic elongated hole in the hanger bracket, the sliding bottom portion abuts against the lower end of the hanger bracket, and a part of the biasing member abuts against the sliding bottom portion 83.
Claims8
A steering device comprising:
- a column pipe that rotatably supports a shaft;
- an outer column having an embracing main body portion that allows the column pipe to move and to be fixed freely in a front-rear direction and fastening portions that expand/contract the embracing main body portion in a diametrical direction;
- a fixing bracket having fixing-side portions holding the outer column from two widthwise sides of the outer column;
- a hanger bracket that is fixedly attached to the column pipe and has a telescopic elongated hole;
- a biasing member that elastically biases the column pipe upward;
- a fastening jig having a bolt shaft which is inserted into the fastening portion, the fixing-side portion, and the telescopic elongated hole;
- and a guide member which is made from a synthetic resin and has a sliding side portion, which is provided with a buffer protrusion and a bolt shaft hole formed in the buffer protrusion, and a sliding bottom portion formed at the lower end of the sliding side portion, wherein
- the hanger bracket is disposed between the two fastening portions, the buffer protrusion of the guide member is inserted into the telescopic elongated hole, the sliding bottom portion abuts against the lower end of the hanger bracket, and a part of the biasing member abuts against the slide bottom portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.