Steering column assembly for a motor vehicle

US8984983B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimler AG · DE

Inventors

• Detlef Hansen · Schenefeld, DE
• Horst Hartmann · Dresden, DE
• Jens Kirchner · Erlangen, DE
• Holger Kittler · Hamburg, DE
• Ivica Milicevic · Hamburg, DE
• Ralf Prigge · Lüneburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 19, 2010
• Grant date: Mar 24, 2015
• Expiry date: Oct 19, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D1/184
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A steering column arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a bracket, to which a jacket tube of a steering column supporting a steering shaft is releasably fixed by a clamping mechanism. The clamping mechanism includes at least one clamping part that is supple in the transverse direction (y direction) of the steering column arrangement and rigid in shear terms in the longitudinal direction (x direction and z direction) of the steering column arrangement.