Patent ID: 8459141

Claim:
A steering column for a vehicle, comprising: a hollow inner tube surrounding a steering shaft; a hollow outer tube fitted on the outer periphery of the inner tube to be slid at the time of telescopic action; a ring bolt having a pair of fastening parts, to which an adjustment lever and an anchoring means are coupled, respectively, and an annular through-hole part formed between the fastening parts, the outer tube being introduced through the annular through-hole part; and a tilt bracket having an anchoring part coupled to a mounting bracket, and a pair of clamping parts extending substantially vertically from the anchoring part to be opposed to each other, wherein the clamping parts are formed with seating recesses, respectively, and the through-hole part of the ring bolt is fitted in the seating recesses, wherein each of the seating recesses is formed with a tilt slot, the fastening parts of the ring bolt extending through the tilt slots and coupled to the adjustment lever, and wherein support parts for supporting the outer periphery of the outer tube are formed at the opposite lateral sides of each of the seating recesses, wherein each of the clamping parts of the tilt bracket is formed with a concave part recessed from the outer surface to the inner surface of the clamping part so as to reduce the thickness of the clamping part, and having a slit formed by cutting the clamping part around the tilt slot.