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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1997
Jean Peyre, Sevres, FR;
Olivier Demouy, Paris, FR;
Arnaud Humbert, Creteil, FR;
Pascal Alliot, Rosny sur Seine, FR;
Valeo Securite Habitacle, Creteil, FR;
Abstract
A motor vehicle has a motorized steering lock including a bolt which locks the steering column by engaging in a recess in the steering shaft in the column. The bolt is actuated by an internally threaded slider which is carried on an externally threaded drive rod, and which cooperates with abutment surfaces formed on the bolt so as to displace the latter between its locking and unlocking positions. Besides its threaded portion, and in extension of the latter, the drive rod has a portion of reduced diameter such that, when the drive rod is rotated, the slider can slide axially along the portion of the drive rod having the reduced diameter, to a position in which its internal thread is out of mesh with the external thread of the drive rod.