Patent ID: 7328631
Filing Date: 2008-02-12
Classification: B62D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A vehicular steering apparatus comprising: a column bracket secured to a steering column including a top plate and a pair of side plates; a fixing bracket secured to a vehicle body and including a pair of side plates each of which confronts a face of a corresponding one of the side plate pair of the column bracket; a support shaft supported by the fixing bracket while supporting the column bracket; a support-shaft through hole formed in each of the side plates of the column bracket and the fixing bracket for insertion of the support shaft therethrough; the support-shaft through holes of the side plates of the column bracket each including a slot extended along a longitudinal direction of the steering column for permitting the support shaft to move relative thereto along the longitudinal direction of the steering column; and a single resilient member interposed between the top plate of the column bracket and a confronting portion of the support shaft and serving to bias the support shaft in a predetermined biasing direction to restrict play of the support shaft in the slot; wherein the single resilient member is integral with the top plate and comprises a partial deformation thereof, the single resilient member biases an axially intermediate a portion of the support shaft substantially equidistant from opposing ends thereof, and the predetermined biasing direction that the resilient member biases the support shaft is downward and in a direction that intersects with a plane including the longitudinal direction of the steering column and an axial direction of the support shaft.