Machine element or mechanism – Control lever and linkage systems – Hand operated
Reexamination Certificate
2008-05-13
2008-05-13
Joyce, William C (Department: 3682)
Machine element or mechanism
Control lever and linkage systems
Hand operated
C280S777000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10416232
ABSTRACT:
A steering spindle arrangement having a first component remote from the steering wheel and a second component near the steering wheel, with one of the mutually facing ends of the one component dipping into the hollow end of the other component, and with the two ends being connected frictionally to each other, is disclosed. Furthermore, a method for producing the arrangement is disclosed. In order, in a simple manner, to obtain as specific a definition as possible of the absorption by the steering spindle of the deformation energy in the event of a crash while ensuring that the arrangement is durable and directly transmits the steering moment, it is provided that the walls of the two ends lie directly on each other in the form of a press fit over the region of the frictional connection.
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Search Report.
Kittler Holger
Lox Hanno
Spielmannleitner Christian
Crowell & Moring LLP
Daimler-Chrysler AG
Joyce William C
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