Daimler-benz Ag

Mercedes-benz Aktiengesellschaft

Daimler Chrysler Ag

Karl Peitsmeier

Helmut Patzelt

Gottfried Schremmer

Manfred Link

Reinhard Steinkamper

Wolfgang Russ

Klaus Peter Kuhn

Walter Ruckert

Wolfgang Henseler

Wolf Boll

Heinz W Knoll

Wolfgang Kerner

Axel Hebenstreit

Thorsten Meyer

Wolf-Dietrich Munzel

Wolfgang Schuliers

Wilhelm Albrecht

Joachim Kieserling

Gudrun Delonge-Immik

Joachim H Sorsche

Heinz Waldschutz

Dieter Wurz

Gottfreid Schremmer

Herbert Tauber

Jurgen Teichmann

Adjusting arrangement for a steering column tube of a steering system of a motor vehicle having a swivellably disposed clamping lever which, in a released position, unblocks or, in a locked position, blocks a longitudinal or vertical displacement of the steering column tube, and has an actuating device for the manual releasing or locking of the clamping lever, which actuating device has a grip arrangement which, in a vehicle-fixed mounted condition, is accessible from a driver seat position. A guide rail arrangement is positioned on the steering column tube and is aligned in the longitudinal direction of the steering column tube. An adjusting slide block is displaceably held on the guide rail arrangement. The slide block is moved by the grip arrangement and is connected with the clamping lever.

Adjusting arrangement for a steering column tube of a steering system of a motor vehicle

The invention relates to an air bag for occupant restraint systems of motor vehicles, which air bag is automatically inflated by means of a gas generator in the event of an accident. In order subsequently to allow slackening of the air bag, a kidney-shaped or crescent shaped zone of the air bag cover, which is arranged at a greater distance from and approximately centrally to a central region of the air bag facing the occupant, is produced from gas-permeable fabric. Due to the specified shape and arrangement of this zone, the necessary load-bearing capacity of the air bag remains guaranteed.

Air bag

An adjusting arrangement for adjusting the slope of a swivellably connected casing tube of a steering spindle of a motor vehicle comprises a supporting device which is disposed on the vehicle body and with which the casing tube is connected by way of a spindle drive by means of which the casing tube can be adjusted with respect to the vehicle body. At least one steering lever having two mutually spaced, parallel swivel shafts acts between the casing tube and the vehicle body, of which one swivel shaft is assigned to the supporting device and the other swivel shaft forms a component of the spindle drive, and the spindle drive takes over the function of the steering lever.

Adjusting arrangement for adjusting the slope of a swivellably connected

Longitudinal adjusting arrangement on a casing tube telescope of a steering spindle in a motor vehicle comprises a spindle drive which has a threaded spindle extending in the longitudinal direction outside on the casing tube. The threaded spindle is supported on a first telescope section and, by means of its thread, engages in a spindle nut which is supported on a second telescope section arranged coaxially with respect to the first telescope section. In order to be able to reduce impact energy in this longitudinal adjusting arrangement in the case of a crash, at least one energy absorption element is fixed on at least one of the telescope sections, which energy absorption element, in the case of a movement, particularly an axial movement of the threaded spindle and/or of the spindle nut relative to the respective supporting telescope section, is acted upon by at least one of these parts of the spindle drive.

Longitudinal adjusting arrangement on a casing tube telescope of a

In a steering lock for motor vehicles, a lock cylinder having a rotor and a stator is received in a tubular steering lock housing. A tubular end section of the lock housing and lock cylinder is enclosed by a pot-shaped cap made from a high strength material. In the steering lock housing, in a radially displaceable arrangement, there is mounted at least one locking element which is spring-biased .in the radial outward direction to protrude into an inner ring groove of the cap to prevent axial displacement of the cap when in a locked position. The at least one locking element can be slid, in a certain rotational setting of the rotor, into a notch in the rotor and can thereupon be moved out of the inner groove of the cap. For this displacement of the locking element into the notch of the rotor, there is secured along the base of the inner groove a circumferential spring wire. The spring wire exhibits, for each locking element, a wire section which is formed out radially up to the margin of the groove; this wire section, if the rotor setting is incorrect and the notch is not assigned to the locking element, being able to be bent elastically up to the base of the inner groove.

Steering lock for motor vehicles

A protective device for motor vehicle airbag systems to protect the vehicle occupants utilizes a vessel whose wall piece, which can break out, is configured as part of the wall of a hollow valve block provided with the outflow orifice. The wall piece is equipped with an extension projecting into the interior of a valve block. The piston rod is guided displaceably, transversely relative to the extension in the valve block, and moved by a pyrotechnic propellent charge. The rod serves to break out the wall part and is provided with a collar which, in the event of ignition, strikes against the extension and thus leads not to a violent breaking-out, but to a pivoting of the wall piece before the final breaking-out.

Motor vehicle occupant protective device

A motor vehicle steering wheel has flat steel deformable spokes which connect a steering-wheel rim to a hub to be mounted on a steering shaft. The associated free ends of the spokes are cast into the cast hub, and each spoke has in the cast-in area a passage bore which extends in the axial direction of the steering wheel and penetrated by the hub material during the casting process. In order to achieve an increase in rigidity in the hub/spokes connecting area, the passage bore is arranged directly adjacent to the entry area of the spoke into the hub, forming a rolling step, such that in this area a tension-rod connection is formed between the hub material located above and below the spoke.

Motor vehicle steering wheel

An axially adjustable steering column for vehicles is disclosed which has an axially displaceable steering shaft which is surrounded by two steering column jacket parts which can be pushed together in a telescopic fashion. The jacket parts can be attached to one another by way of a clamp connection. The jacket parts are axially movable with respect to one another when the clamp connection is loosened with the displacement of the steering shaft. The clamp connection has at least one threaded pin which is radially movable with respect to the longitudinal axis of the steering column jacket parts and is received on the outer steering column jacket part in a threaded section and after its screwing-in movement presses against the internal steering column jacket part. A spring-loaded control cable is provided which acts in a rotating fashion on the threaded pin. For this purpose, the control cable surrounds a pin connecting part on the threaded pin, resting against a circular cross-section at least over a distance of one arcuate section.

Axially adjustable steering column for vehicles

An adjusting device to vary the inclination of a steering column of a motor vehicle comprises a rectangular frame which surrounds a casing tube accommodating the steering column, braces the same against the vehicle body and acts additionally as a guide lever for pivotal adjusting movement of the steering column. A motor driven adjusting mechanism is anchored at a fixed angle to the frame and to the casing tube and operates to pivotally adjust the steering column inclination.

Adjusting device to vary the inclination of a steering column of a motor

An antiremoval device for a locking mechanism for a steering column lock for motor vehicles is disclosed. A fastening member extending through releasably connected housing parts, which prevent tampering with the locking parts, engages additionally into a displaceable catch of the locking parts when the catch is in a locking position with the steering column to thereby prevent the fastening member from being moved to a position releasing the housing parts.

Antiremoval device for a locking mechanism

The aperture between a positionally stable vehicle passenger space end wall and a steering spindle shaft penetrating a bore in the wall is masked by a sealing sleeve which exhibits a bellows which compensates an offset of the shaft by modification of its form. Attached to the sealing sleeve is a second sleeve with which the first sleeve forms a sound-insulating closed air chamber.

Sound deadening dual sleeve sealing arrangement

A steering wheel lock for motor vehicles, with a steering column of adjustable inclination and with a locking cylinder housing displaceable in the dashboard in its longitudinal axis only, has an articulated connection of the locking cylinder housing to a detent pin housing and a gimbal or pivotal connection of the shafts transmitting the locking movement.

Steering wheel lock for motor vehicles

An unlocking prevention device for a steering wheel lock of that type having a driver acting on a detent pin and controlled by a locking cylinder shaft. During the unlawful removal of the locking cylinder, the shaft is shifted in its pull out direction by means of a force and the driver thereby engages into a groove, as a result of which the shaft cannot be removed and, because of the changed form of the shaft, the driver can no longer be actuated.

Unlocking prevention device for a steering wheel lock

A driving connection between spline shafts and spline bore hubs of safety steering columns, where the shaft and the hub, because of prestressing torque existing between the two, can be shifted with respect to one another axially but are free from torsional play. The prestressing torque is generated by a torsion spring element supported between the shaft and the hub. The required freedom from torsional play is achieved by arranging a main hub and an additional hub on the shaft with the torsion spring element connecting the main hub with the additional hub so that the main hub and the additional hub are spring loaded in opposite rotational directions.

Shaft connection arrangement

An automobile steering wheel that is disposed below a plane of a steering wheel rim. As a protection against impact, there is a plastically deformable cup-like deformation member within the steering wheel that absorbs energy due to an impact of a driver of the motor vehicle on the steering wheel. Spokes are constructed in such a manner that the contribute to the energy absorption by a performance of deformation work. The deformation member has a height which is less than a distance between the hub and the plane of the steering wheel rim. The deformation member is fixedly connected in its upper region with the respective spokes.

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Remseck-Aldingen, Germany

Karl Peitsmeier