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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2014
Jtekt Corporation, Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi, JP;
Eiji Tanaka, Kitakatsuragi-gun, JP;
Fumio Kishida, Toyota, JP;
Susumu Imagaki, Tondabayashi, JP;
Hiroshi Kawakami, Toyota, JP;
JTEKT CORPORATION, Osaka, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
Elongated holes are formed in a first plate of a fixed bracket so as to extend parallel to a column moving direction. An elongated hole inserted portion of a suspending bolt of a suspending mechanism is disposed in an initial assembling position in one of the elongated holes. An inner circumference of the elongated hole includes a pair of flat surface portions which are parallel to the column moving direction, an arc-shaped surface portion and tapered surface portions which connect a pair of end portions of the arc-shaped surface portion to the corresponding flat surface portion. Tapered angles which the tapered surfaces form relative to the column moving direction are equal to or greater than a friction angle.