Patent ID: 6981430

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 shall in a predetermined biasing direction to restrict play of the support shaft in the slot; wherein the resilient member is in contact with the top date as retained by the support shaft, the resilient member is disposed below the top plate, a part of the resilient member is pressed against and contacts with the top plate, and is subject to a downward reaction force from the top plate, and the predetermined biasing direction in which the resilient member biases the support shaft is a downward direction.