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Steering column arrangement for a motor vehicle

  • US 6,264,239 B1
  • Filed: 03/19/1999
  • Issued: 07/24/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/19/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A steering column arrangement for a motor vehicle, comprising an exterior, stationarily arranged steering column tube, an interior steering column tube telescopically displaceable in the exterior steering column tube, and an adjusting device operatively arranged between the two steering column tubes for displacing the interior steering column tube inside the exterior steering column tube, the adjusting device having an adjusting member which is stationarily applied to the interior steering column tube, extends longitudinally thereof and is aligned axially parallel with a steering axis, and the longitudinally extending adjusting member is configured with a desired buckling point for producing a laterally projecting deformation portion during longitudinal compression of the longitudinally extending adjusting member, and at a level of the desired buckling point, a supporting bow is stationarily arranged on the exterior steering column tube, reaches at least partially over the desired buckling point and is plastically deformable upon engagement of the buckling point with the supporting bow during a forced telescopic collapse of the interior steering column relative to the exterior steering column tube.

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