Patent ID: 7353727

Claim:
A vehicular steering apparatus comprising: a column bracket secured to a steering column including a top plate and a pair of side plates; a fixing bracket secured to a vehicle body and including a pair of side plates each of which confronts a face of a corresponding one of the side plate pair of the column bracket; a support shaft supported by the fixing bracket while supporting the column bracket; a support-shaft through hole formed in each of the side plates of the column bracket and the fixing bracket for insertion of the support shaft therethrough; the support-shaft through holes of the side plates of the column bracket each including a slot extended along a longitudinal direction of the steering column for permitting the support shaft to move relative thereto along the longitudinal direction of the steering column; and a resilient member interposed between the top plate of the column bracket and a confronting portion of the support shaft and serving to bias the support shaft in a predetermined obliquely upward biasing direction to restrict play of the support shaft in the slot; wherein the resilient member includes an extension spring, a pair of ends of which are individually engaged with the support shaft and the top plate.