Patent ID: 7500414

Claim:
In a tilt and/or telescopic steering column apparatus for a vehicle, in which a column side bracket attached to a steering column is so provided as to be swingable and/or slidable on a vehicle body side bracket attached to a vehicle body, a fastening bolt is inserted through a tilt adjustment hole formed in said vehicle body side bracket and through a telescopic adjustment hole formed in said column sided bracket, said two brackets are fastened to each other with pressure by fastening said fastening bolt and thus fastened in a tilt and/or telescopic adjustment position, while a tilt and/or telescopic adjustment can be made by releasing said two brackets from each other by loosening said fastening bolt, and said telescopic adjustment hole has a slight gap with respect to said fastening bolt, the steering column apparatus for the vehicle being characterized in that said column side bracket has a bottom plate portion in a position that faces said steering column; an annular elastic member for preventing a backlash of said fastening bolt due to the slight gap when making the tilt and/or telescopic adjustment is fitted on an outer peripheral surface of said fastening bolt; and said annular elastic member includes an annular elastic support portion acting to elastically bias said fastening bolt towards said steering column from said bottom plate portion while abutting on said bottom plate portion and to raise said fastening bolt by at least said gap.