US 11,873,021 B2
Steering column for a motor vehicle
Thomas Raich, Vandans (AT)
Assigned to thyssenkrupp Presta AG, Eschen (LI); and thyssenkrupp AG, Essen (DE)
Filed by thyssenkrupp Presta AG, Eschen (LI); and thyssenkrupp AG, Essen (DE)
Filed on Jan. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/102,251.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2022 201 101.5 (DE), filed on Feb. 2, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0242173 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. B62D 1/185 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 1/185 (2013.01) 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A steering column for a motor vehicle, comprising:
a casing unit in which a steering spindle is mounted rotatably about a longitudinal axis extending in a longitudinal direction, the casing unit comprising casing tubes that are adjustable telescopically relative to one another in the longitudinal direction;
a roller guide with a bearing support that is displaceable radially on a first casing tube of the casing tubes;
a roller mounted in the roller guide that is rotatable about a roller axis that is transverse to the longitudinal axis, wherein the roller is configured to roll via an outer circumference of the roller in the longitudinal direction on a second casing tube of the casing tubes; and
a pretensioning device that interacts with the bearing support to pretension the roller against the second casing tube,
wherein the bearing support is guidable on the first casing tube with an oblique inclination towards the longitudinal axis,
wherein the pretensioning device is configured to apply an axial force to the bearing support.