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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2012
Namyang Ind.co., Ltd., Ansan-si, KR;
Sung Jong Hong, Seoul, KR;
Heung Joo Lee, Ansan-si, KR;
Beom Suk Kim, Seoul, KR;
Hee Chang Seo, Ansan-si, KR;
NAMYANG IND. CO., LTD., Ansan, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a steering column, including: an inner tube; an outer tube formed in a hollow shape into which the inner tube is inserted and including a pair of telescope guides protruding to an outer circumferential surface thereof, a first slit cut in an axial direction between the pair of telescope guides, and a second slit cut toward both sides of a circumferential direction at one end of the first slit; and a control lever installed on the telescope guides, wherein the telescope guides have a taper that is formed obliquely along a lengthwise direction, and the operating force of the lever is uniformly maintained according to the position of the control lever in the lengthwise direction by means of the taper.