Steering system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11117611-B2
Application number	US-201916686826-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 18, 2019
Priority date	Dec 26, 2018
Publication date	Sep 14, 2021
Grant date	Sep 14, 2021

Abstract

A steering system includes a rod member, a housing, and a clamping member. The housing has a clamping slit and includes a first clamp-receiving portion and a second clamp-receiving portion that project so as to sandwich the clamping slit therebetween. The clamping member includes a fixed cam, a clamping shaft, a rotary cam, and a clamping lever. The fixed cam is fitted in the first clamp-receiving portion from an outer side of the first clamp-receiving portion. The fixed cam has a third through hole extending through the fixed cam coaxially with a first axis. The third through hole has a small diameter portion at a first portion close to the rotary cam and a large diameter portion having a diameter larger than a diameter of the small diameter portion at a second portion away from the rotary cam.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A steering system comprising:
a rod member to which a steering member is connected directly or indirectly;
a housing having a retaining hole for retaining the rod member such that the rod member is movable in an axial direction, the housing having a clamping slit extending through a circumferential wall of the housing in a radial direction and elongated in the axial direction and including a first clamp-receiving portion and a second clamp-receiving portion both projecting in the radial direction so as to sandwich the clamping slit between the first clamp-receiving portion and the second clamp-receiving portion,
the first clamp-receiving portion having a first through hole extending through the first clamp-receiving portion along a first axis that intersects the radial direction, and
the second clamp-receiving portion having a second through hole extending through the second clamp-receiving portion along a second axis that intersects the radial direction; and

a clamping member configured to clamp the housing so as to reduce a diameter of a part in the axial direction of the retaining hole to lock a position of the rod member, the clamping member including a fixed cam, a clamping shaft, a rotary cam, and a clamping lever,
the fixed cam being fitted in the first clamp-receiving portion from an outer side of the first clamp-receiving portion,
the fixed cam having a third through hole extending through the fixed cam coaxially with the first axis,
the clamping shaft being inserted through the first through hole, the second through hole, and the third through hole,
the rotary cam being configured to relatively move away from or toward the fixed cam as the rotary cam rotates relative to the fixed cam, and
the clamping lever being connected to the rotary cam, wherein

the third through hole has a small diameter portion at a first portion close to the rotary cam and a large diameter portion having a diameter larger than a diameter of the small diameter portion at a second portion away from the rotary cam.

2. The steering system according to claim 1 , wherein in an axial direction of the fixed cam, a length of the large diameter portion is larger than a length of the small diameter portion.

3. The steering system according to claim 1 , wherein the first through hole and the second through hole are arranged such that in a state where the clamping member does not cause the housing to clamp the rod member, the first axis and the second axis are not coincident with each other, but in a state where the clamping member causes the housing to clamp the rod member, the first axis and the second axis are coincident with each other.

Assignees

• Jtekt Corp

Inventors

• Sakuda Masayoshi
• Goto Daiki
• Fujiwara Kazuki
• Taniyama Akihiro
• Kume Shoin
• Kouketsu Syunya

Classifications

• B62D1/195

  Yieldable supports for the steering column · CPC title

• B62D1/184 Primary

  Mechanisms for locking columns at selected positions · CPC title

• B62D1/16 Primary

  Steering columns · CPC title

• F16G11/044

  friction clamps deforming the cable, wire, rope or cord · CPC title