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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2014
Applicant:
Nsk Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NSK Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 1/19 (2006.01); B62D 1/184 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 1/195 (2013.01); B62D 1/184 (2013.01); B62D 1/192 (2013.01);
Abstract
A steering apparatus is disclosed, the apparatus including friction platesclamped by a clamping bolttogether with a clamp portion and a vehicle-sided bracketto extend toward a rear side of a vehicle in an axial direction; and a holding memberfitted on an inner columnand connected to portions, on the rear side of the vehicle, of the friction plates, the holding memberand the inner columnbeing connected together via shearing pins, the shearing pins being sheared into fracture upon receiving a predetermined level of impact force to enable a more stable and lower separating load to be acquired.