Patent ID: 8485554

Claim:
A steering device for a vehicle, the device comprising: a steering shaft having an axis; a steering wheel coupled to the steering shaft; a steering column that rotatably supports the steering shaft; a fixed bracket fixed to a vehicle main body by way of a fastening device to support the steering column, the fixed bracket being arranged to be detached in a vehicle forward direction when a load of not less than a predetermined load acts in the forward direction of the vehicle; a through hole formed through the fixed bracket along axial direction of the steering column; a guide rail that moves the detached fixed bracket along the axial direction of the steering column; and a restricting portion that restricts movement of the guide rail relative to the fixed bracket, wherein: the guide rail has a fixed portion and a main body portion, the fixed portion being fixed to the vehicle main body by way of the fastening device, the main body portion extending along the axial direction of the steering column and inserted into the through hole, and the main body portion being provided to approach the vehicle main body through a fastening operation of the fastening device for fixing the fixed portion to the vehicle main body; the restricting portion has a restricting member for restricting movement of the guide rail relative to the fixed bracket before the guide rail is fixed to the vehicle main body so as to hold the fixed bracket and the guide rail at a mounting position where the fixed bracket and the guide rail can be fixed to the vehicle main body; and the restricting member is formed such that its restricting force for restricting movement of the guide rail relative to the fixed bracket becomes less as the guide rail approaches the vehicle main body by the fastening operation of the fastening device.