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Steering wheel with integrally-skinned foamed thermoplastic resin-covered handwheel core having flow mark-obscuring abrasion-resistant coating

US4640150A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 14, 1984
Grant dateFeb 3, 1987
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Expiry dateDec 14, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T74/2087
  • WIPO fieldTransport
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A steering wheel having the hand wheel part thereof formed of an injection molded foam of thermoplastic synthetic resin, which injection molded foam has a substantially solid outer surface and is covered with a coating. This steering wheel is produced in attractive appearance without requiring use of any specially formulated resin material or exercise of rigid control of molding conditions.

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