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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2003
Christian Lutz, Nüziders, AT;
Christian Lutz, Nüziders, AT;
ThyssenKrupp Presta Aktiengesellschaft, Eschen, LI;
Abstract
A steering column includes a locking device for securing a jacket tube in a predetermined and adjustment position and having a first locking member with an engagement member received in an at least one hole provided in the first locking member and displaceable between a first position in which it projects beyond the first locking member by a predetermined length, and a second position in which it is displaced into the at least one hole against a biasing force of a spring located in the hole, and a second locking member having a plurality of receiving holes associated with the at least one engaging member and spaced from the first locking member, in opened and closed positions of the locking device, respectively, by a distance which is grater or smaller than the predetermined length by which the engaging member projects in its first position beyond the first locking member.