Steering column for a motor vehicle
AssigneeDaimlerChrysler AG
InventorsJOERG GLINOWIECKI, THOMAS KAMBIES, ANDREAS WEHMEYER
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Abstract
A steering column for a motor vehicle has a steering shaft rotatably mounted in a jacket tube. The jacket tube has at least one plastically deformable deformation element associated therewith, with energy adsorption during axial displacement of the jacket tube. The at least one deformation element is secured on at least one side to the jacket tube and abuts a deflecting structure that is permanently attached to the body, and positioned axially with respect to the deformation element in such fashion that the deformation element is deformed with the aid of the deflecting structure during an axial displacement of the jacket tube.
Claims15
Steering column for a motor vehicle with a steering shaft rotatably mounted in a jacket tube, with a deformation element being associated with the jacket tube, said deformation element, during axial displacement of the jacket tube, being plastically deformable with energy adsorption,
- wherein the deformation element is secured at least unilaterally on the jacket tube and abuts deflecting structure mounted permanently on a vehicle body, said deflecting structure being positioned axially with respect to the deformation element in such fashion that the deformation element is deformed with the aid of the deflecting structure during an axial displacement of the jacket tube.
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