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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2021
Thyssenkrupp Presta Ag, Eschen, LI;
Thyssenkrupp Ag, Essen, DE;
Matthias Ancelin, Reichenberg, CH;
Balint Kalman Nagy, Gams, CH;
thyssenkrupp Presta AG, Eschen, LI;
thyssenkrupp AG, Essen, DE;
Abstract
A steering column for a motor vehicle may include an inner casing in which a steering spindle is mounted rotatably about a longitudinal axis that extends in a longitudinal direction and is received in an outer casing in a slidingly adjustable manner in the longitudinal direction. A pretensioning apparatus may have a pressure piece that can be braced from an outside in a tensioning direction transversely to the longitudinal axis against the inner casing. The pressure piece is held in the longitudinal direction on the outer casing and is supported against a fixing element counter to the tensioning direction. The fixing element is fixed in a recess of the outer casing. The fixing element has a forming means that is plastically furrowed into the recess, and/or the recess has a forming means that is plastically furrowed into the fixing element.