Patent ID: 7367588
Filing Date: 2008-05-06
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
1. A steering column device, comprising: a steering shaft for a steering wheel being attached at an end, a column body for rotatably supporting said steering shaft, a bracket of said column body having mounting flanges each with a cut-away groove opening in the backward direction of a car body, a collar having a flange part with an outer diameter larger than the width of said cut-away groove and a cylindrical part with an outer diameter smaller than the width of said cut-away groove, an elastically deformable ring with an outer diameter larger than the width of said cut-away groove and an inner diameter which said cylindrical part of said collar can be inserted in, a bolt for compressing said ring, putting said mounting flange of said column body between said ring and said flange part, so that said column body is mounted on said car body but allowed to be detached from said car body in a secondary collision, and a cylindrical bush being inserted between said cylindrical part of said collar and said cut-away groove.