Patent · US Expired

Steering assembly for motor cars

US4903988A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

Arno Jambor · Leinfelden, DE
Dieter Gurtler · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 5, 1988
Grant date	Feb 27, 1990
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 5, 2008

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB62D1/04
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a steering wheel assembly for motor cars having a steering wheel column with two covering segments arranged side by side in an upper region in front of a steering wheel and with a passageway therebetween for the spokes of a steering wheel to pass through between the segments. A locking mechanism is provided to connect the covering segment to the steering drive. This locking mechanism is made to be disengageable from its locked fixed rotational position upon the occurrence of an obstruction in the rotation of the steering wheel hub or of the spokes to it, and thus allows at least one covering segment to be able to be rotated with the steering wheel when normal rotation is obstructed and to be reengageable in it original position after removal of the obstruction.

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