Safety arrangement for motor vehicle leg room

US5778732A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mercedes-Benz Group AG · DE

Inventors

• Helmut Patzelt · Fellbach, DE
• Eberhard Klemm · Eßlingen, DE
• Norbert Wessels · Stuttgart, DE
• Alfred Schnabel · Althengstett, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 24, 1996
• Grant date: Jul 14, 1998
• Expiry date: Jun 24, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T74/20528
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A safety arrangement in the leg room of a motor vehicle has a strut of a suspension for the tube of a safety steering column hanging down from a cross member into the leg room. A crash-caused bending of the strut is connected with a raising of the forward steering column tube end. A pedal assembly is arranged laterally next to the strut on a front wall of the vehicle body bounding the leg room in the front. In order to prevent an erection of the steering column tube caused by a shock impulse in the event of a crash of the motor vehicle with a rearward displacement of the pedal assembly, at least one laterally supporting deflecting device is arranged on the pedal assembly and/or on the strut, by way of which the pedal assembly is guided past the strut.