Steering column crash system
AssigneeKrupp Presta AG
InventorsKurt Marxer, Markus Marxer, Ronald Meier
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Abstract
A steering device for motor vehicles having a chassis, includes a steering shaft with a shaft axis, a guide box for guiding the steering shaft and a retaining bracket clamped to the guide box. The bracket has at least one slide face along the shaft axis and the slide face has a slot defining a displacement path with respect to the chassis. A clamping mechanism axially retains the bracket in an initial position of the displacement path and a tear frame with a slide face is clamped by the slide face of the bracket against the chassis and is also clamped by the clamping mechanism relative to the chassis. A tear-away strip is located between a pair of notched tracks on the tear frame and has at one end a retaining flap which is fixed to the bracket.
Claims17
A steering device for motor vehicles having a chassis, comprising:
- a steering shaft having a shaft axis (1);
- a guide box (3) guiding the steering shaft;
- a retaining bracket (6) clamped to the guide box, the bracket having at least one slide face (8) along the shaft axis (1), the slide face (8) having a slot (20) as a displacement path with respect to the chassis (18);
- clamping means for axial retention of the bracket (6) in an initial position of the displacement path (20);
- a tear frame (7) with a slide face (12) clamped by the slide face (8) of the bracket (6) against the chassis (18) and also clamped by the clamping means relative to the chassis (18);
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- a tear-away strip located between a pair of notched tracks (10) on the tear frame (7), the tear-away strip comprising at one end a retaining flap (9) which is fixed to the bracket (6).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.