Patent ID: 7255369

Claim:
An impact absorbing type steering column apparatus that absorbs impact energy upon driver's secondary collision after collision of a vehicle, comprising: a vehicle side bracket to be secured to a vehicle body; a column side bracket slidably fitted to the vehicle side bracket and holding a steering column in which a steering shaft attached with a steering wheel at a rear end thereof, is rotatably supported; an impact energy absorbing member provided on one of the vehicle side bracket and the column side bracket, the impact energy absorbing member being separate from said one of the vehicle side bracket and the column side bracket and including a plurality of impact absorbing plates arranged with predetermined intervals along a direction in which a collapse stroke progess, the plurality of impact absorbing plates having substantially the same cross sectional shape and size in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction in which the collapse stroke progresses; and a breaking member provided on the other of said brackets and disposed for sequentially breaking said plurality of impact absorbing plates as the collapse stroke progress.