Steering column for a motor vehicle and method for adjusting a steering column

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 12030550
APP PUB NO 20230249738A1
SERIAL NO

18012354

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A steering column for a motor vehicle may include an inner casing in which a steering spindle is mounted rotatably about a longitudinal axis that extends in a longitudinal direction and is received in an outer casing in a slidingly adjustable manner in the longitudinal direction. A pretensioning apparatus may have a pressure piece that can be braced from an outside in a tensioning direction transversely to the longitudinal axis against the inner casing. The pressure piece is held in the longitudinal direction on the outer casing and is supported against a fixing element counter to the tensioning direction. The fixing element is fixed in a recess of the outer casing. The fixing element has a forming means that is plastically furrowed into the recess, and/or the recess has a forming means that is plastically furrowed into the fixing element.

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THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AGLIECHTENSTEIN SCHAAN SCHAAN
THYSSENKRUPP AGTHYSSENKRUPP ALLEE 1 ESSEN 45143

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Ancelin, Matthias Reichenberg, CH 3 9
Nagy, Balint Kalman Gams, CH 5 3

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