Patent ID: 7344156

Claim:
A harness slack take-up structure for taking-up a slack of a harness extended from a steering wheel, comprising: a steering shaft to which the steering wheel is fixed; a steering column that is configured to rotatably accommodate the steering shaft and to slide together with the steering shaft in a front/rear direction; a bracket that supports the steering column slidably in the front/rear direction; a slack holder that is configured to contain the slack of the harness and fixed to the bracket; a movable part that is movable in the slack holder and connected to the steering column so as to slide with the steering column in the front/rear direction; and a fixed part that is fixed to the slack holder, wherein the harness extends along the steering column, wherein a first end of the slack is held by the movable part and a second end of the slack is held by the fixed part, wherein the fixed part has an unimpeded line of sight to at least a portion of the movable part when the movable part moves between an extreme frontward position and an extreme rearward position, wherein the fixed part and the movable part continuously have the slack of the harness therebetween when the movable part moves between the extreme frontward position and the extreme rearward position, wherein the second end of the slack is fixed at a position offset from a central portion of a moving range of the movable part, wherein the slack swings in the front/rear direction with the fixed part as a fulcrum, and wherein the slack extends substantially linearly when the movable part is positioned at the extreme frontward position or the extreme rearward position.