Steering column for road vehicles
AssigneeFerrari S.P.A.
InventorLorenzo SCHIRO'
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Abstract
A steering column for road vehicles having a steering shaft; a transmission shaft, which is housed in the steering shaft, is provided with a steering wheel and has an upper segment, which projects out of, and is coupled in a rotary and axially sliding manner to an upper post of the steering shaft; and a covering device to cover at least part of the upper post of the steering shaft with at least two sleeves, which are connected one to a dashboard of a road vehicle and one to the steering wheel, and are coupled to one another in a sliding manner so as to move between an extracted position and a retracted position.
Claims12
A steering column for road vehicles comprising a steering shaft (2) having an upper post (3);
- a transmission shaft (5), which is housed in the steering shaft (2) and has an upper segment (6), which projects out of the upper post (3), is provided with a steering wheel (8) and is coupled to the upper post (3) in a rotary and axially sliding manner;
- and a covering device (14) for at least part of the upper post (3) of the steering shaft (2);
- and characterized in that the covering device (14) comprises at least a first sleeve (15) and a second sleeve (20), which extend around the upper post (3) of the steering shaft (2), are connected one to a dashboard (4) of a road vehicle and one to the upper segment (6) of the transmission shaft (5) and are movable relative to one another between an extracted position and a retracted position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.