1. A steering apparatus comprising:
a steering shaft;
a tilt hinge shaft fixed to a vehicle body;
a steering column that rotationally supports the steering shaft; and
an elastically deformable conductive member, wherein
the steering apparatus is tiltable about the tilt hinge shaft and is electrically connected to the vehicle body by installing the conductive member between the tilt hinge shaft and the steering column,
the conductive member includes a first contact section that contacts the tilt hinge shaft, a second contact section that contacts the steering column, and a deformation section that extends between the first contact section and the second contact section,
the deformation section is elastically deformable such that the first contact section and the second contact section approach each other, and the deformation section is constructed to be inserted between the tilt hinge shaft and the steering column, while being elastically deformed,
the first contact section includes an arcuate section that is curved to bulge toward the steering column, the first contact section contacting the tilt hinge shaft within a range of the arcuate section, and
the deformation section includes: (i) a first small arcuate section that extends from the first contact section and bulges away from the steering shaft, (ii) a second small arcuate section that extends from the first small arcuate section and bulges towards the steering shaft, and (iii) a third small arcuate section that extends from the second small arcuate section and bulges away from the steering shaft.
2. The steering apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the conductive member further includes an engaging portion, which engages with the steering column when moving away from between the tilt hinge shaft and the steering column.
3. The steering apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
an end of at least one of the first contact section and the second contact section of the conductive member is folded back away from at least one of the tilt hinge shaft and the steering shaft to form a folded-back section, and
the conductive member is constructed to be inserted between the tilt hinge shaft and the steering column with the folded-back section first.
4. A steering apparatus comprising:
a steering shaft;
a tilt hinge shaft fixed to a vehicle body;
a steering column that rotationally supports the steering shaft; and
an elastically deformable conductive member, wherein
the steering apparatus is tiltable about the tilt hinge shaft and is electrically connected to the vehicle body by installing the conductive member between the tilt hinge shaft and the steering column,
the conductive member includes a first contact section that contacts the tilt hinge shaft, a second contact section that contacts the steering column, and a deformation section that extends between the first contact section and the second contact section,
the deformation section is constructed to be inserted between the tilt hinge shaft and the steering column, while being elastically deformed, and
when the conductive member is arranged between the tilt hinge shaft and the steering column, the first contact section and the second contact section contact each other.
5. A steering apparatus comprising:
a steering shaft;
a tilt hinge shaft fixed to a vehicle body;
a steering column that rotationally supports the steering shaft; and
an elastically deformable conductive member, wherein
the steering apparatus is tiltable about the tilt hinge shaft and is electrically connected to the vehicle body by installing the conductive member between the tilt hinge shaft and the steering column,
the conductive member includes a first contact section that contacts the tilt hinge shaft, a second contact section that contacts the steering column, and a deformation section that extends between the first contact section and the second contact section,
the deformation section is constructed to be inserted between the tilt hinge shaft and the steering column, while being elastically deformed, and
when the conductive member is inserted between the tilt hinge shaft and the steering column, the first contact section and the second contact section contact each other.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An method for clustering events, comprising:
receiving data at an extraction engine from managed infrastructure;
converting the events into alerts;
mapping the alerts into a matrix M;
determining one or more common steps from the events and producing clusters relating to the alerts and or events.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
using a source address for each event to assign a graph coordinate to the event with an optional subset of attributes being extracted for each event and turning that into a vector.
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:
using the graph coordinates to cluster the events.
4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:
determining hop and a proximity of the source of the event.
5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:
calculating one or more distances between the vectors.
6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:
bringing together events whose vectors are optimally close.
7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
factoring the matrix M into A and B, where A is inspected and significant clusters are extracted, and B is used to assign a start and end time to each cluster.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
collecting alerts into time buckets.
9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
breaking messages into subsets of messages that relate to failures or errors in the managed infrastructure.
10. The method of claim 4, further comprising:
grouping subsets of messages into clusters.
11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:
extracting text components from the event messages and converting them into word and subtext.
12. The method of claim 11, further comprising,
normalizing the works and subtexts.
13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:
mapping the works and subtexts that are normalized to a common, 0.0 and a non-common, 1.0.
14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
normalizing entropy for events.
15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
assigning entropy to the alerts.
16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:
running alerts in parallel with an activities of the extraction engine.
17. The method of claim 1, wherein membership in a cluster indicates a common underlying failure in the infrastructure.
18. The method of claim 1, further comprising: eliminating duplicate copies of repeating data.
19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:
reducing a number of bytes in network data transfers that need to be sent.
20. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
determining sigalizer common steps to ascertain how many clusters to extract from events.
21. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
using entropy and a severity of an event for clustering.