Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideaki Okamoto

Mitsuhiko Harara

Hidekazu Suzuki

Takao Morita

Seiji Tanaka

Tsutomu Matsukawa

Toshifumi Oheda

Yasutomo Takeuchi

A steering column is attached to a fixing bracket of a vehicle body through a support bracket such that the steering column is inclined with respect to a vertical plane perpendicular to the width direction of the vehicle body. A guide plate is attached to one of both side portions of the fixing bracket. The one side portion is located on the side toward which the rear portion of the steering column is inclined. When the support bracket moves due to external force acting thereon, the guide plate restricts movement of the support bracket in the width direction of the vehicle body to permit the steering column to move toward the front of the vehicle body while at the same time suppressing swaying motion of the steering column, thereby stabilizing the load at the time of absorption of impact.

Steering unit support device for a vehicle

Strut-type suspension apparatus for a vehicle

Growing community of inventors

Okazaki, Japan

Hideaki Okamoto