Patent ID: 9079612
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
1. An adjustable steering column assembly that includes a releasable clamp assembly that clamps a shroud of the adjustable steering column assembly in position relative to a support bracket, the releasable clamp assembly including an elongate clamp bolt onto which are stacked: at least a part of an adjustable shroud of the adjustable steering assembly, a cam mechanism comprising a fixed cam part and a moving cam part, the two parts each having a bore through which the clamp bolt passes, a thrust bearing, and a locking nut which includes an internal thread that engages a complimentary thread on the clamp bolt and which is locked down so as to apply an axial load to the thrust bearing, further comprising: a tapered compliant bush which is pressed into a space defined between the clamp bolt and the bore of the moving cam part of the cam mechanism with a relatively thick end of the bush nearest the thrust bearing and with the thrust bearing applying an axial load to the bush.