Patent ID: 8966948
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: B60R,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An electrical steering column lock, comprising: a locking guide that advances and retreats with respect to a lock ring, the locking guide driven by a driving part; a lock bar that advances toward and retreats from the locking guide within a predetetinined distance in the same direction as the advance and retreat direction of the locking guide, the lock bar having a leading end disposed toward the lock ring, and being elastically supported by the locking guide biased in a direction toward the lock ring, wherein one side of the locking guide is provided with a protrusion; and a slider that advances toward and retreats from the locking guide, the slider positioned facing the protrusion of the locking guide, wherein the slider is provided with a grooved part into which the protrusion is insertable, wherein the slider is elastically biased toward the locking guide, wherein at least one surface of the slider at which the protrusion of the locking guide contacts the grooved part is an inclined surface, the inclined surface guiding the protrusion of the locking guide, such that the slider advances toward the locking guide while the grooved part receives the protrusion of the locking guide along the inclined surface, and such that the slider retreats from the locking guide while the grooved part separates from the protrusion along the inclined surface, wherein the lock bar is provided with at least one key groove, and wherein the slider includes at least one key member that is inserted into the at least one key groove while the slider advances and is separated from the at least one key groove while the slider retreats.