Patent ID: 6349610
Filing Date: 2002-02-26
Classification: B62D,F16F

Abstract:
Steering column for a motor vehicle comprising:a steering shaft rotatably mounted in a jacket tube comprising a deformation element associated with the jacket tube; wherein the deformation element is secured at least unilaterally on the jacket tube and abuts a deflecting structure mountable permanently on a vehicle body, said deflecting structure being positioned axially with respect to the deformation element in such fashion that the deformation element is deformed with the aid of the deflecting structure during an axial displacement of the jacket tube such that energy is absorbed by the deformation element; wherein the deflecting structure includes first and second deflecting elements; and wherein the deformation element is forcibly guidable toward the jacket tube between the first deflecting element in the form of a mount that is wedge-shaped in the displacement direction of the jacket tube and the second deflecting element which is in the form of an opposite mount during a collision.