Daimler Chrysler Ag

Daimler-benz Ag

Dieter Gurtler

Arno Jambor

Oliver Wagner

A vehicle having a multipart lowerable vehicle top has at least two bending-resistant top elements. The top elements are swivellably connected with one another and, by way of at least one top element, are swivellably connected with the vehicle body. For connecting the top elements with one another and/or with a vehicle body, swivelling joints are provided such that, each connection having at least one drivable swivelling joint.

Vehicle with a multipart lowerable vehicle top

In a steering wheel assembly for motor cars having a steering wheel column with two covering segments arranged side by side in an upper region in front of a steering wheel and with a passageway therebetween for the spokes of a steering wheel to pass through between the segments. A locking mechanism is provided to connect the covering segment to the steering drive. This locking mechanism is made to be disengageable from its locked fixed rotational position upon the occurrence of an obstruction in the rotation of the steering wheel hub or of the spokes to it, and thus allows at least one covering segment to be able to be rotated with the steering wheel when normal rotation is obstructed and to be reengageable in it original position after removal of the obstruction.

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Grafenau, Germany

Dieter Gurtler