Patent ID: 6810763
Filing Date: 2004-11-02
Classification: B60R,Y10T

Abstract:
An arrangement for locking a steering shaft of a steering device of a motor vehicle comprising:a blocking element, which is arranged so that it can be displaced with respect to the steering shaft of the vehicle from an unlocked position into a locked position, of a blocking device, which is provided with a housing and, in its locked position, engages in a recess, formed by adjacent teeth, in a toothed ring arranged on the outer circumference of the steering shaft; the blocking device including an adapter which can be releasably connected to a flange attached to the steering device; the flange having a recess which is designed in such a manner that the adapter, in order for the blocking device to be fitted, can be inserted in a partial area of the flange recess and can then be displaced along a guide into a limit position, in which the blocking element is situated above the toothed ring area into which it is to engage in the locked position and; transverse webs disposed between the teeth of the toothed ring, which webs, in the locked position of the blocking element, prevent axial displacement of the adapter along the recess in the flange to the partial area.