Patent · US Expired

Single-spoke steering wheel

US4448091A · kind A · utility

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4Claims

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Assignee

Karl Schmidt GmbH

Inventors

Wolfgang Bauer · Germering, DE
Werner Grosser · Pocking, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 24, 1980
Grant date	May 15, 1984
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 24, 2000

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T74/20834
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a steering wheel covered with a layer of plastic material, the steering wheel hub is connected to the steering wheel rim by a steering wheel spoke. To reduce the manufacture expenditure, the spoke is embedded in the steering wheel hub consisting of an aluminum pressure diecasting and the spoke as well as the portion of the steering wheel rim to which the spoke is connected are embedded by a pressure-diecast layer.

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