Jtekt Corporation

Chuo Hatsujo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kazutaka Awata

Kenichi Suzuki

Yoshihide Ohara

Toru Suzuki

Yuichi Ichie

Toyokazu Tsuge

A telescopic-type steering system includes an upper tube and a lower tube that are coupled to each other such that relative displacement between the upper tube and the lower tube is allowed. The steering system includes a coupling wire that is at least partially formed of an insulating member and that has one end portion and the other end portion that are electrically insulated from each other. In the steering system, the upper tube and the lower tube are coupled to each other by the coupling wire.

Steering system and coupling wire

tubular socket ( ) is placed. The socket ( ) has a male thread portion ( ), through an inner space of which an inner cable ( ) passes. A nut ( ) is tightened on the male thread portion ( ) to exert against an outer peripheral area ( ) of the notched opening ( ). A torsion coil spring ( ) urges the nut ( ) in such a direction as to always tighten the nut ( ) in order to prevent the nut ( ) from becoming inadvertently loosened.

Cable end fastening device for a vehicular remote control cable

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Nagoya, Japan

Kazutaka Awata