Patent ID: 7748985

Claim:
A connecting device for arrangement between a steering wheel and a steering column module of a motor vehicle, said device comprising: a stator part and a rotor part received therein for surrounding a flexible electric line, containing at least one conductor, the end of which is in each case connected with the rotor part, the flexible line with its two broad sides through a U-shaped reversing section with at least one winding wound onto an axially directed inner wall of the rotor part as well as spaced therefrom and in reverse, with at least one further winding wound onto the also axially directed outer wall of the stator part and with its narrow sides is held between the radially directed base wall, which in the region of the inner wall is part of the rotor part and in the region of the outer wall is part of the stator part, and the radially directed cover wall of the rotor part, wherein the base wall and the cover wall of the rotor part is constructed in such a way that between the inner wall of the rotor part and the outer wall of the stator part they form in sections only a support surface for the narrow sides of the line, wherein both narrow sides of the line windings on the inner wall and one of the narrow sides of the line windings on the outer wall are axially supported by the rotor part, and wherein the cover wall of the rotor part in the region of the inner wall has a ramp for narrowing the hollow space between the base wall and the cover wall of the rotor part.