Patent ID: 11891114
Assignee: NSK LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A steering device comprising:
a steering column; and
a steering shaft rotatably supported inside the steering column;
wherein:
the steering column has a cylindrical front-side column supported by and fastened to a vehicle body, and a cylindrical rear-side column arranged on a rear side of the front-side column and having a front-end portion connected to a rear-end portion of the front-side column,
the steering shaft has a front-side shaft rotatably supported inside the front-side column, a rear-side shaft rotatably supported inside the rear-side column and having a rear-end portion where a steering wheel is supported by and fastened to, and a universal joint connecting a rear-end portion of the front-side shaft and a front-end portion of the rear-side shaft,
a center axis of the front-side column is arranged so as to be parallel to a horizontal plane, which corresponds to a floor surface of a vehicle room of the vehicle body in a state that the steering device is supported by and fastened to the vehicle body,
the rear-side column is arranged so that a center axis thereof inclines downward going forward with respect to the horizontal plane, and
the front-side column is arranged so that the front-end portion of the front-side column is always arranged above a portion of an extension line of the center axis of the rear-side column which exists at the same location in a front-rear direction as the front-end portion of the front-side column.