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US 5,778,732 AGranted
Safety arrangement for motor vehicle leg room
AssigneeMercedes-Benz AG
InventorsHelmut Patzelt, Eberhard Klemm, Norbert Wessels, Alfred Schnabel
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AssigneeMercedes-Benz AG
InventorsHelmut Patzelt, Eberhard Klemm, Norbert Wessels, Alfred Schnabel
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A safety arrangement in the leg room of a motor vehicle has a strut of a suspension for the tube of a safety steering column hanging down from a cross member into the leg room. A crash-caused bending of the strut is connected with a raising of the forward steering column tube end. A pedal assembly is arranged laterally next to the strut on a front wall of the vehicle body bounding the leg room in the front. In order to prevent an erection of the steering column tube caused by a shock impulse in the event of a crash of the motor vehicle with a rearward displacement of the pedal assembly, at least one laterally supporting deflecting device is arranged on the pedal assembly and/or on the strut, by way of which the pedal assembly is guided past the strut.
A safety arrangement in a leg room region of a motor vehicle, comprising a safety steering column tube having a suspension which includes a strut configured to extend down into the leg room region and having a targeted bending zone to effect a crash-caused bending thereof and a raising of a lower end of the steering column tube, and a pedal assembly arranged laterally next to the strut on a front wall of the motor vehicle to bound a front region of the leg room, wherein at least a portion of a length of the pedal assembly extends to a front portion of the strut and at least one laterally supporting deflecting device is arranged on at least one of the pedal assembly and on the strut such that, in the event of a crash-caused rearward displacement, the pedal assembly is caused to be guided past the strut by interaction of the at least one laterally supporting deflecting device with the targeted bending zone.
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