Patent ID: 8387742

Claim:
A steering apparatus for a vehicle comprising: a rack bar which extends such that its axial direction coincides with a lateral direction of the vehicle and which moves in the lateral direction in accordance with a steering operation of a steering wheel; left and right tie rods which are connected at outboard ends thereof to left and right steerable wheels and which steer the left and right steerable wheels leftward and rightward by swing motions of the tie rods; a coupler connected to a central portion of the rack bar with respect to the axial direction and having a pair of coupling portions to which inboard ends of the left and right tie rods are rotatably connected, respectively, the coupler moving in the lateral direction together with the rack bar so as to swing the left and right tie rods to thereby steer the left and right steerable wheels leftward and rightward; and a heat insulator which is integrally formed to have an upper plate portion and a lower plate portion which are connected together at their ends located opposite the rack bar with respect to a front-rear direction and which face each other, the heat insulator being fixed to the coupler so as to cover the coupling portions to thereby shut off radiant heat transfer to the coupling portions from a heat source located forward of the coupler.