Steering column arrangement for motor vehicles

US8220834B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Denis Battistella · Cascina Uboldi, IT
• Kornel Kantor · Kecskemét, HU
• Gary E. Jones · Mesa, US
• Michael Muser · Brackenheim, DE
• Juergen Stocker · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 6, 2010
• Grant date: Jul 17, 2012
• Expiry date: Jul 6, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D1/195
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A steering column arrangement including a steering column and a steering wheel, which is oriented at an angle to a horizontal, in which the steering column is connected to at least two pivoted levers, which each have a pivot bearing at both ends, the pivot bearings situated on the side of the pivoted levers remote from the steering wheel being fixedly attached, while the pivot bearings attached to the other end of the pivoted levers are arranged at a reciprocal distance from the steering column, the arrangement of the pivoted levers and the pivot bearings being selected so that under a force acting on the steering wheel in the direction of travel the steering wheel and steering column are moved simultaneously in the direction of travel and the steering wheel increases said angle.