Securing element, steering bearing with a securing element and steering column with a steering bearing and a securing element

US9032833B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Herbert J. Erhardt · Rochester, US
• Richard Baier · Dörflas, DE
• Jochen Ott · Simmerath, DE
• Rainer Lutz · Steinheim, DE
• Anton Erhardt · Herzogenaurach, DE
• Peter Loncar · Herzogenaurach, DE
• Reinhold Nuetzel · Höchstadt an der Aisch, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 1, 2011
• Grant date: May 19, 2015
• Expiry date: Aug 1, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16C2326/24
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A securing element (1) with an annular body (3, 12a, 26) and with holding tongues (4) which emerge from the annular body (3, 12a, 26) and end at a hole (6) in the securing element (1), which hole is centered with respect to the center axis (5) of the securing element (1), wherein the hole (6) leads axially in the same direction as the center axis (5) through the securing element (1) and, at the radial narrowest points of the hole (6), is bounded at least by end edges (7) formed on the end sides of the holding tongues (4), and wherein in each case at least two surfaces (8, 9) bounding part of the holding tongue (4) meet and end at the respective end edge (7), and of which one of the surfaces (8) is formed on the front side of the holding tongue (4).