Patent ID: 8668226

Claim:
A steering apparatus, comprising: a steering column that has a pair of tubes that are movable relative to each other, and that supports a steering shaft, which rotates in response to a rotating operation of a steering wheel, such that the steering shaft is rotatable; a connecting wire that couples the pair of tubes of the steering column to each other; and a wire fitting bracket that is fitted to an end portion of the connecting wire, and that has a bracket body and a plurality of protrusions, wherein in the wire fitting bracket, the bracket body is fitted to the steering column side with a bolt, and has a bolt insertion hole through which the bolt is passed, and the protrusions protrude from the bracket body and are arranged around an axis of the bolt insertion hole, and the protrusions are formed of a rotation restricting protrusion that restricts rotation of the wire fitting bracket and an erroneous fitting prevention protrusion that prevents erroneous fitting of the wire fitting bracket.