Apparatus for reducing the likelihood of injury to drivers of mo

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1992-10-14

1994-06-14

Camby, Richard M.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Running gear

280779, B62D 111

Patent

active

053203844

ABSTRACT:
The steering wheel column and/or the bearing for the steering wheel column in a motor vehicle is pushed or pulled away from a position in front of the driver in the event of a head-on collision whose intensity exceeds a preselected minimum value. The displacing unit which is activated in the event of head-on collision of preselected minimum intensity (e.g., a collision which causes the engine block and/or the transmission case to move rearwardly with reference to the frame of the motor vehicle) can entrain the steering wheel column and/or the bearing for the steering wheel column by way of a carrier which is pivotably mounted adjacent the steering wheel column or its bearing and has one or more projections with cutting edges penetrating into the steering wheel column and/or bearing in response to activation of the displacing unit. Each projection can include a cylindrical portion which extends at an oblique angle from a side of the carrier and whose axis preferably makes an acute angle with an adjacent surface of the steering wheel column or its bearing.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4884652 (1989-12-01), Vollmer
patent: 4946195 (1990-08-01), Ioka et al.
patent: 5174409 (1992-12-01), Osawa
Pamphlet: "Audi" Fernab Vom Standard Die Hochwertige Crayon-Serienausstattung (Eine genial Erfindung zum Thema Sicherheit. Das Audi Sicherheitssystem procon-ten).

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