Steering bearing for motor vehicle

Details Steering bearing for motor vehicle Steering bearing for motor vehicle

1997-05-21

1998-08-04

Dickson, Paul N.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Running gear

74492, B62D 119

Patent

active

057882797

ABSTRACT:
A steering bearing between a bracket on a steering column tube and a support on a body of a motor vehicle. The bracket has a slot therein and the steering bearing includes a metal bearing bottom having a rest surface bearing flush against a first side of the bracket and a raised rest in the slot with a second side of the bracket and a collar raised above the raised rest, an elongated slot through the metal bearing bottom, a fastening bolt on the support passing through the elongated slot and clamping the metal bearing bottom against the support, a plastic insert rigidly attached to the bearing bottom seated flush on the raised rest having a tear-off surface which cooperates with the rest surface on the metal bearing bottom in defining a slot for the bracket on the steering column tube, an aperture in the bracket on the steering column tube, and a tear-off body integral with the tear-off surface received in the aperture in the bracket to retain the bracket relative to the plastic insert. The tear-off body fractures in response to an impact on the steering column tube to release the bracket from the steering bearing.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5390955 (1995-02-01), Kaliszewski et al.
patent: 5704254 (1998-01-01), Thomas et al.
patent: 5704641 (1998-01-01), Shimizu et al.

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