Patent ID: 7322610

Claim:
A manufacturing method of a steering column apparatus for a vehicle in which a steering column is supported and secured on the vehicle body through a bracket, said method comprising: forming said bracket in advance, said bracket including a plurality of individual components connected by caulking via caulking projections and caulking recesses thereof, wherein said individual components include: a U-shaped main body component which integrally comprises two side portions each having an insertion hole and extended in parallel to an axis of said steering column, a connecting portion connecting said side portions, and flange portions to be attached to the vehicle body, the flange portions having said caulking recesses and extending, respectively, along sides of said steering column from said side portions, and two separate components respectively having integrally first plate portions to be opposed to said flange portions of the main body component and provided with insertion projections to be connected to said respective insertion holes and second plate portions to be opposed to said side portions of the main body component and provided with said caulking projections to be connected to said respective caulking recesses; wherein said forming includes connecting said insertion holes of said side portions and said insertion projections of said first plate portions respectively to each other, and connecting said caulking recesses of said flange portions and said caulking projections of said second plate portions to each other; and disposing shock absorbing plate members respectively between said side portions of the main body component and said two separate components, an end of each shock absorbing plate member being secured to the vehicle body and extended along said side portions of the main body component and then bent and folded back along said first plate portions of said separate components.