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Locking device for a height and tilt adjustable steering column in a motor vehicle

  • US 6,390,717 B1
  • Filed: 08/02/2000
  • Issued: 05/21/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/08/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A locking device for two components of a height-adjustable and tilt-adjustable motor vehicle steering column, the components being displaceable in relation to one another with one component being fixed on a bracket stationarily connected to a body of a motor vehicle and the other component being part of a steering column housing accommodating the steering column, the locking device comprising:

  • a first toothed surface fixed to one component;

    a second toothed surface fixed to the other component, the first toothed surface and the second toothed surface each having at least one row of teeth with a plurality of teeth arranged next to one another, the second toothed surface being brought into engagement with first toothed surface wherein free tips of the teeth of the two rows, which free tips face one another, are mutually repelled by magnetic forces.

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