Steering wheel for a motor vehicle, and a method for producing a steering wheel rim

US6298750A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US
• TRW AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY SYSTEMS GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Kerner · Stuttgart, DE
• Manfred Link · Nuremberg, DE
• Claudia Nowak · Freiburg (Elbe), DE
• Helmut Patzelt · Fellbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 25, 1999
• Grant date: Oct 9, 2001
• Expiry date: Aug 25, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T74/20834
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Steering wheel having a steering wheel rim which is hollow at least in some places and has ventilation openings for stabilizing the temperature of the steering rim. In the region of the at least one cavity, the steering wheel rim has a holder for fixing a fan module which sucks in environmental air and passes it into the cavity.