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Vehicle steering wheel

US8398115B2 · kind B2 · utility

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15References

24Claims

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Assignee

Autoliv Development AB · SE

Inventors

Raimund Nebel · Untermeitingen, DE
Jürgen Mackensen · Dachau, DE
Oliver Adolph · Birkenfeld, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 25, 2009
Grant date	Mar 19, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 19, 2029

Classification

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

Abstract

A vehicle steering wheel with a steering wheel body, a movable element held movably on the steering wheel body, which element can be pressed down against the force of a restoring element against the steering wheel body, and with a horn contact which is closed by pressing down of the element. An economical design for constructing the horn contact is created in that the horn contact has two cable cores (44a, 44b) which are held in a holding element (32), and that a contact element (36a, 36b) which is likewise held by the holding element (32) extends into each of the cable cores (44a, 44b). The two contact elements (32a, 32b) come into electrical contact with each other here by the pressing down of the movable element.

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