DISPOSITIF DE TENUE D'UN ARBRE TOURNANT D'UNE COLONNE DE DIRECTION DE VEHICULE AUTOMOBILE

摘要

The retaining member is designed to be fitted between a rotary steering shaft and a surrounding support. It consists of a plastic bearing (5) in the shape of a solid ring (11) with a base (12) extended by an outer skirt (13) which engages with a recess in the support. It has alternating long (15) and short (16) tongues inside the skirt. The long tongues are relatively supple and the short ones relatively rigid. The tongues are positioned so that under small radial forces the steering shaft is supported by the longer tongues only, and under greater radial forces by both the long and short tongues. The bearing also has a supporting clip (14) between two notches to engage with the surrounding support, and its skirt is truncated conical in shape and divided into three sections for easy fitting.