Patent ID: 7066491

Claim:
A casing tube of a steering column of a motor vehicle, comprising: a first telescopic tube section; and a second telescopic tube section; wherein the first and second tube sections are frictionally connected to each other in a press fit wherein the press fit is formed by a plastic expansion of the first tube section and by an elastic, resilient deformation of the second tube section and, in an event of a crash of the motor vehicle, are displaced relative to each other over an axial displacement path and wherein the first and second tube sections are frictionally connected to each other by the press fit over a total length of the axial displacement path such that: at a first position of the press fit alone the axial displacement path a diameter of the second tube section elastically expands at a first location; and at a second position of the press fit along the path the diameter of the second tube section elastically expands at a second location and resiliently contracts at the first location; and further wherein the first and second tube sections have a form-fitting connection in a resting position.