Drive Shaft and Constant Velocity Joint for It

Drive shaft, particularly a longitudinal shaft for motor vehicles, which shaft has at least one hollow shaft section and at least one constant velocity joint, the outer hub of which joint is connected with the hollow shaft section, and which joint is sealed off, with regard to the hollow shaft section, by way of a lid, wherein the lid and the hollow shaft section are configured and disposed in such a manner that the inner hub of the constant velocity joint cannot penetrate, at least not significantly, into the hollow shaft section, as the result of an axial force that acts on it, particularly an axial force resulting from an accident.