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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2012
Jtekt Corporation, Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Eiji Tanaka, Kitakatsuragi-gun, JP;
JTEKT Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
When clamped side plates of an upper column bracket (movable bracket) are fastened via clamping side plates of an upper fixed bracket by a fastening shaft in response to a rotating operation of an operating lever, the brackets are locked with each other. A pressing mechanism that includes a pressing member moves in the axial direction of the fastening shaft in accordance with fastening by the fastening shaft, and presses a lower tube (inner tube) through an insertion hole formed in an upper tube (outer tube). The entirety of the axial force of the fastening shaft is used as a retaining force for retaining the posture of a steering column.