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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1996
Helmut Patzelt, Kernen, DE;
Eberhard Klemm, Esslingen, DE;
Norbert Wessels, Stuttgart, DE;
Alfred Schnabel, Althengstett, DE;
Mercedes-Benz AG, , DE;
Abstract
A safety arrangement in the leg room of a motor vehicle has a strut of a suspension for the tube of a safety steering column hanging down from a cross member into the leg room. A crash-caused bending of the strut is connected with a raising of the forward steering column tube end. A pedal assembly is arranged laterally next to the strut on a front wall of the vehicle body bounding the leg room in the front. In order to prevent an erection of the steering column tube caused by a shock impulse in the event of a crash of the motor vehicle with a rearward displacement of the pedal assembly, at least one laterally supporting deflecting device is arranged on the pedal assembly and/or on the strut, by way of which the pedal assembly is guided past the strut.