Steering device

Details Steering device Steering device

1980-06-04

1982-07-06

Bertsch, Richard A.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Running gear

74493, B62D 118

Patent

active

043379672

ABSTRACT:
A steering device according to the present invention, wherein a steering shaft provided at the upper end thereof with a steering wheel is supported in a column tube fixed on a vehicle body, is of such an arrangement that: a cylindrical chamber is defined by a partition wall fixed on the inner surface of the column tube and through which the steering shaft extends and a piston fixed on a portion of the steering shaft downwardly of the partition wall, and a high pressure fluid generated by fluid pressure generating means for operating in a collision of the vehicle is filled in the cylindrical chamber, to thereby retract the steering shaft to a position of the lower end thereof.

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patent: 3988027 (1976-10-01), Serizawa
patent: 4019403 (1977-04-01), Kondo
patent: 4142423 (1979-03-01), Ikawa
patent: 4258934 (1981-03-01), Tsuge

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