Patent ID: 7914044
Filing Date: 2011-03-29
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
1. A vehicular collision energy absorbable steering column coupled to a steering shaft, the steering column comprising: a cylindrical hollow outer tube; a cylindrical hollow inner tube having on an interior circumferential surface one or more mounting grooves; and a distance bracket shaped into a hollow cylinder with a circumferential area cut partially open in an axial direction of the steering shaft, the distance bracket having one or more U-shaped wires each having two ends, wherein one of the ends is fixed on the mounting groove of the inner tube and the other end is extended from the circumferential area cut, penetrated through the grip holes in the axial direction and seated in the guide grooves, so that the one or more wires are deformed in the axial direction with a vehicle load in the vehicle collision in order to cushion the vehicle collision.