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Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 06, 2017
Applicants:

Thyssenkrupp Presta Ag, Eschen, LI;

Thyssenkrupp Ag, Essen, DE;

Inventors:

Marius Breuer, Fishers, IN (US);

Janick Durot, Widnau, CH;

Bernhard Jäger, Wangen im Allgäu, DE;

Assignees:

thyssenkrupp Presta AG, Eschen, LI;

thyssenkrupp AG, Essen, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 45/14 (2006.01); B62D 1/185 (2006.01); B62D 1/20 (2006.01); F16D 3/06 (2006.01); F16C 3/03 (2006.01); B62D 1/16 (2006.01); B29C 45/27 (2006.01); B29L 31/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 1/185 (2013.01); B29C 45/14065 (2013.01); B29C 45/14598 (2013.01); B29C 45/2708 (2013.01); B62D 1/16 (2013.01); B62D 1/20 (2013.01); F16C 3/03 (2013.01); F16D 3/06 (2013.01); B29C 2045/2714 (2013.01); B29K 2995/0087 (2013.01); B29L 2031/75 (2013.01); F16C 2223/42 (2013.01); F16C 2226/80 (2013.01); F16C 2326/24 (2013.01); F16D 2250/0046 (2013.01); F16D 2300/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method may be employed to produce a variable-length steering shaft. The method may involve positioning a shaft core within a mold cavity of an injection molding tool coaxially with respect to a mold surface that delimits a toothing region, injecting molten plastic into the mold cavity between the shaft core and the mold surface of the mold cavity, removing a toothed shaft from the injection molding tool after the molten plastic has solidified, providing a hollow shaft and axially inserting the toothing region into an internal toothing of the hollow shaft. To make it possible to provide an improved sliding coating with the least possible manufacturing outlay, the injection of the molten plastic may be performed from one axial end region of the mold cavity.


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