Patent ID: 9302697
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: B62D

Claim Text:
1. A steering apparatus comprising: a steered shaft that changes an orientation of steered wheels by making a linear motion in a housing in response to rotation of a steering shaft; an end member that is fitted to an end portion of the steered shaft, and that comes into contact with or moves away from the housing in response to movement of the steered shaft; an elastic body disposed between the housing and the end member; and a restricting portion that restricts compressive deformation of the elastic body beyond a limit of a prescribed range, when the elastic body is compressively deformed in a direction of the linear motion of the steered shaft due to collision of the end member with the elastic body, wherein the restricting portion restricts the compressive deformation beyond the limit of the prescribed range when a first input is applied to the steered shaft, and the prescribed range is set larger than a range in which the elastic body is compressively deformed when a second input that is shorter in duration than the first input is applied to the steered shaft.