Steering device for motor vehicles

US5813699A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Leopold KOSTAL GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Harald Donner · Meinerzhagen, DE
• Ralf Heinze · Lüdenscheid, DE
• Meinolf Kathol · Finnentrop, DE
• Jorg Welschholz · Herscheid, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 3, 1995
• Grant date: Sep 29, 1998
• Expiry date: Oct 3, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D1/183
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A steering device for motor vehicles having a steering column positionable in the axial and/or radial direction, in each case over a preset displacement range, via at least one positioning device actuated by external force. Locking of the steering column is implementable by a positioning device such that, when the motor vehicle is switched off, the steering column is positioned thereby into a position lying outside the displacement range(s) in which a torsional force exerted on the steering column via the steering wheel is not transmittable to the steering gear.