Patent ID: 7370553
Filing Date: 2008-05-13
Classification: B21D,B23P,B62D,F16B,F16F

Abstract:
1. A steering spindle arrangement, comprising: a first component remote from a steering wheel and having an end with a wall; a second component near the steering wheel having a first end with a wall and a second end, wherein the first end of the second component has a largest diameter of the second component; wherein the first component end and the first end of the second component are frictionally engaged together and wherein the wall of the end of the first component and the wall of the first end of the second component lie directly on each other in a press fit over a region of the frictional engagement; wherein the second end of the second component has a longitudinal section which tapers in a cone-like manner, and wherein the tapered second end cone-like section is spaced apart axially from the press fit by a portion of the first end of the second component having the largest diameter; and wherein the end of the first component is engageable with an inner wall of the tapered second end cone-like section of the second component at an end of a displacement path of the first component within the second component.