Crash system for the steering column in a motor vehicle

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1996-05-16

1997-09-09

Ellis, Christopher P.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Running gear

74492, B62D 118

Patent

active

056648065

ABSTRACT:
A crash system for the steering column in a motor vehicle, in which two tube ends are connected to one another by an insert which clamps the two tube ends to one another up to a predetermined axial load. This insert is a tolerance ring, whose cross-sectional profile is compressible. An adjustable clamping device surrounds the outer tube end and acts radially.

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patent: 5476284 (1995-12-01), DuRocher et al.
patent: 5477750 (1995-12-01), Korzan

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