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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2013
Thyssenkrupp Presta Aktiengesellschaft, Eschen, LI;
Adrian Rauber, Unterwasser, CH;
Thomas Raich, Vandans, AT;
THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Eschen, LI;
Abstract
Steering column for a motor vehicle having a column tube for rotatably mounting a steering spindle and having a carrier body which engages around the column tube, at least in certain areas, wherein the column tube is mounted in the carrier body so as to be slidable at least in a longitudinal direction of the steering spindle, wherein the steering column has at least one leaf spring which presses against a cylindrical-column-shaped section of the column tube, in a transverse direction orthogonally with respect to the longitudinal direction of the steering spindle, wherein the leaf spring has at least two support faces which are spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction () of the column tube, with which supports faces said leaf spring presses against the column tube directly or with the interposition of at least one bearing body, wherein both during the direct pressing and during pressing with the interposition of the bearing body, the leaf spring presses against the column tube exclusively with its side facing the column tube.