Steering wheel lock for motor vehicles

US4798067A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Karl Peitsmeier · Bad Liebenzell, DE
• Gottfried Schremmer · Tamm, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 30, 1987
• Grant date: Jan 17, 1989
• Expiry date: Jul 30, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T70/5956
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A steering wheel lock for motor vehicles, with a steering column of adjustable inclination and with a locking cylinder housing displaceable in the dashboard in its longitudinal axis only, has an articulated connection of the locking cylinder housing to a detent pin housing and a gimbal or pivotal connection of the shafts transmitting the locking movement.