Abstract: A mounting for an adjustable steering hand wheel for motor vehicles with an outer column immovably secured at the vehicle body and with a bearing housing pivotally secured at the upper end of the outer column by way of a pivot joint; a steering shaft extends through the outer column which is connected with a steering shaft section non-rotatably connected with the steering hand wheel and rotatably supported in the bearing housing by way of a shaft joint, whereby the bearing housing is provided with an arm extending along the outer column; an adjustable form-locking detent means pairing is arranged between the end of the arm and the outer column whose one part consists of a detent row and whose other part consists of a locking member cooperating with the detent row and adapted to be lifted radially out of the detent row, whereby one of the two parts of the detent means pairing is arranged at the end of the arm and the other part at a corresponding place at the outer column corresponding to the end area of the a

Abstract: A safety steering column for passenger motor vehicles with an axially compressible steering shaft and with an energy absorbing deformation member surrounding the steering shaft, which, on the one hand, is axially supported at a point fixed relative to the body and, on the other, is axially actuatable by an abutment part connected with the axially movable part of the steering shaft; the deformation member thereby includes an undulated tubular member having different values in its axial rigidity along different axial sections that are realized at the undulated tubular member itself.

Abstract: A safety steering system for motor vehicles with a steering spindle which is concentrically surrounded over a part of its length by a plastically deformable deformation member and which is changeable in its length by an impact of the driver against the steering wheel caused by an accident; the end of the deformaton member remote from the steering wheel is thereby supported at a fixed vehicle part arranged at a distance to the end wall while an outer column which is arranged between the deformation member and the steering spindle within the area of the deformation member, is displaceable in case of an accident together with the steering wheel and with the adjoining part of the steering spindle; the deformation member is thereby constituted by one or several hollow bodies which have an inner diameter that is only slightly larger than the outer diameter of the outer column.