Machine element or mechanism – Control lever and linkage systems – Hand operated
Reexamination Certificate
2007-06-12
2007-06-12
Joyce, William C. (Department: 3682)
Machine element or mechanism
Control lever and linkage systems
Hand operated
C280S775000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11080471
ABSTRACT:
In a steering apparatus for a car which presses and retains a steering column upon a fixing bracket to car body to be telescopically adjustable, the steering column is molded from a tubular material by a hydroforming process to have a swelled portion as a unitary structure thereof. There is formed on each side surface of this swelled portion an elongated hole for telescopic adjustment through which a fastening bolt of a clamp mechanism provided on a fixed bracket to steering column is inserted.
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Joyce William C.
Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
NSK Ltd.
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