Fixing device for fixing a steering spindle bearing unit
AssigneeThyssenkrupp Presta AG
InventorsRony Schnitzer, Thomas Heitz
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Abstract
A fixing device has at least one clamping device and at least one locking element which can be acted upon by the clamping device, and at least one counter locking element. In a closed position of the clamping device, the locking element and the counter locking element are arranged in an engagement position, and the fixing device has at least one elastic resetting element for resetting the locking element in an open position of the clamping device. The fixing device has at least one engagement element which, in the closed position of the clamping device, is in engagement by preferably plastic deformation of at least one surface of the locking element and/or of the counter locking element in a form-fitting manner with the surface.
Claims20
A securement device for securing a steering spindle bearing unit on a bracket unit of an adjustable steering column for a motor vehicle, the securement device comprising:
- a clamping device;
- a locking element actuable by the clamping device;
- and
- a counterlocking element;
- wherein the locking element and the counterlocking element in a closed position of the clamping device are disposed in an engagement position, and the securement device is configured to resiliently reset the locking element in an open position of the clamping device, and
- wherein the securement device comprises an engagement element which, in the closed position of the clamping device, is in engagement with at least one surface of the at least one of the locking element and the counterlocking element under form closure by reforming of the at least one surface of the at least one of the locking element and the counterlocking element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.