Nsk Americas, Inc.

Nsk Corporation

Jonathon Lyte

Abhishek Mathur

Gerald Lim

Victor Corona Martinez

David Ray Hartman

Simon Read

An assembly for a steering column assembly including an engagement plate and a telescope plate at least partially disposed within the engagement plate. The engagement plate may be adapted to be located between a column tube of a steering column assembly and the telescope plate. The engagement plate and the telescope plate have one or more features for engaging with or contacting each other to provide energy absorption during an impact exceeding a threshold load. These features may include one or more projections or protrusions, one or more slots, one or more ribs, or a combination.

Steering column telescope assembly and energy absorption device

An adjustment subassembly for a steering column assembly including a telescope plate () adapted to be secured to a column tube () of the steering column assembly; a locking pin () having one or more features () at one end that are adapted to engage with the telescope plate (); a preload plate () adapted to receive at least a portion of the locking pin () at an opposing end of the locking pin (); and a user operating device () for causing engagement and disengagement of the locking pin () and the telescope plate () through contact with the preload plate ().

Steering column telescope positive lock and breakaway device

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Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

Jonathon Lyte