Patent ID: 7959167

Claim:
A steering apparatus comprising: a steering gearbox which is attachable to a vehicle frame and which includes a hollow cylindrical portion in which a rack shaft is slidably fitted to an inside thereof, the rack shaft being reciprocated by a rotation of a pinion attached to a lower end of a steering shaft; vehicle attachment boss portions which are formed in both a pinion-side end and a counter-pinion-side end of the hollow cylindrical portion of the steering gearbox, respectively, so as to protrude from an outer circumference of the hollow cylindrical portion in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and in which attachment holes are formed in a vertical direction of the vehicle so as to attach the steering gearbox to the vehicle frame; and a first rib which is formed in a connection portion between the hollow cylindrical portion and the vehicle attachment boss portion of the counter-pinion-side end so as to connect the outer circumference of the hollow cylindrical portion to the vehicle attachment boss portion of the counter-pinion-side end, wherein the first rib includes two ribs, and wherein the two ribs are formed in a V shape such that respective first ends thereof intersect each other at a position connected to the hollow cylindrical portion and respective second ends thereof are displaced from each other in the vertical direction at a position connected to the vehicle attachment boss portion of the counter-pinion-side end.