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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2003
Christian Lutz, Nüziders, AT;
Christian Lutz, Nüziders, AT;
ThyssenKrupp Presta Aktiengessellschaft, Eschen, LI;
Abstract
A steering gear shaft for a steering column of a motor vehicle has at least one crash-deformable section formed as a corrugated tube at least a portion of a longitudinal extent of which that contains at least one of corrugation crests of the corrugated tube, is formed of several layers, with a wall thickness of at least one layer in the at least one of the at least one of the corrugation crests and a respective corrugation trough diminishing over a region of the at least one of the corrugation crests and the respective corrugation trough between a side of the corrugation tube adjacent to which a universal joint is provided, and a side of the corrugation tube remote from the universal joint.