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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2017
Jtekt Corporation, Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Masayoshi Sakuda, Kashihara, JP;
Tomonori Sugiura, Yamatokoriyama, JP;
Tatsuro Kubota, Shiki-gun, JP;
Shoji Ishimura, Kashihara, JP;
Shigeru Hoshino, Toyota, JP;
JTEKT CORPORATION, Osaka-shi, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A support shaft includes a first supported portion and a second supported portion supported by respective support holes of a pair of fastened portions. The support shaft includes a large-diameter portion including the first supported portion, a small-diameter portion including the second supported portion and having a diameter smaller than the large-diameter portion, and a stepped portion formed between the large-diameter portion and the small-diameter portion. The small-diameter portion includes a tapered portion provided in the small-diameter portion so as to be adjacent to the stepped portion and having a diameter gradually decreasing toward the stepped portion, a first to-be-broken portion placed in a smallest-diameter portion of the tapered portion so as to be broken at a time of a secondary collision, and a second to-be-broken portion placed adjacent to the second supported portion so as to be broken at the time of the secondary collision.