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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2019
Jtekt Europe, Irigny, FR;
Laurent Rey, Villeurbanne, FR;
JTEKT EUROPE, Irigny, FR;
Abstract
Steering column for a motor vehicle including two telescopic drive shafts linked in rotation, allowing an axial sliding of a front shaft supporting a steering wheel, successively over, starting from the most forward position, a first range of depth adjustment of the position of this steering wheel, then a second damping range used in the case of an accident for damping an impact of the driver on the steering wheel, this column including an electric motorization for controlling the sliding, and an anti-theft blocking device blocking the rotation of one of the shafts, which is automatically engaged for an axial position for blocking the front shaft given by the motorization located in the second damping range.