Steering device

DETAILED DESCRIPTION This invention has been developed to obviate the abovedescribed problems of the prior art, and has as its object the provision of a steering device, in which the head of the occupant wearing the seatbelt does not collide with the steering wheel in a collision of the vehicle.
To accomplish this object, according to the present invention, a steering device, 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.