Collision energy absorbable steering column for vehicle

Details Collision energy absorbable steering column for vehicle Collision energy absorbable steering column for vehicle

2011-03-29

2011-03-29

Dickson, Paul N (Department: 3616)

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Running gear

C074S493000, C188S371000, C280S775000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07914044

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a vehicular collision energy absorbable steering column coupled to a steering shaft. The steering column comprises shaped wires deformable to absorb a collision load in a vehicle collision, a cylindrical hollow outer tube, a cylindrical hollow inner tube having on its interior circumferential surface mounting grooves to secure the wires, and a distance bracket that is formed of a hollow tubular member having an outer tube joint at one end and an inner tube joint at the opposite end and has a pair of fastening flanges shaped into two spaced opposing plates formed on the outer circumferential surfaces of the tubular member for receiving the wires so that the distance bracket may collapse in the axial direction in the event of a vehicle collision through deforming the wires.

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