Title:
【発明の名称】自動車用ステアリングコラムの分離可能な連結装置の安全装置
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH07506068
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
Safety assembly for a separable coupling device, particularly for a motor vehicle steering column having two coaxially arranged shaft sections whose end portions are offset with respect to their common geometric axis and which overlap. Each shaft section carries a plate. Each plate is connected to the other plate by separable link pins. The safety assembly comprises a clip made up of a fork having two faces connected to each other by a web so that each of the two faces bears against one side of a corresponding plate: one of the two faces has a system for attaching one of the ends of one part of the link pins; the other face has a system for clamping one of the ends of the other part of the link pins; one of the two faces is provided with openings intended to receive the corresponding end of the link pins that are not connected to the face, in such a way that the clip blocks the axial separation of the two plates with respect to each other when this separation occurs at a slow speed frontal impact, while at the same time permitting this separation when a frontal impact occurs at high speed.
Inventors:
Perivion, olivier
Ponche, patrick
Ponche, patrick
Application Number:
JP51871594A
Publication Date:
July 06, 1995
Filing Date:
February 22, 1994
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Nakam
International Classes:
B62D1/19; F16B5/06; B62D1/16; (IPC1-7): B62D1/19; B62D1/16; F16B5/06
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takashi Koshiba