B62D 1/11
Incorporating energy-absorbing arrangements
Official title: incorporating energy-absorbing arrangements, e.g. by being yieldable or collapsible (padded linings associated with the steering wheel B60R21/05; shock absorbers using plastic deformation of members in general F16F7/12)
B62D1/11 (Incorporating energy-absorbing arrangements) appears on 120 US grants and 69 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B62D- Granted patents
- 120
- Published applications
- 69
- Assignees
- 73
- Inventors
- 256
- Latest grant
- 3 Jun 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Steering wheel3 Jun 2025US 12,319,334 B2Dalphi Metal Espana S.A.
- Driver seat airbag device14 Jan 2025US 12,194,939 B2Autoliv Development AB
- Directly injection-molded steering wheel damper and manufacturing method thereof24 Sep 2024US 12,097,649 B2Aia Co., Ltd.
- Vibration-damping structure for vehicle steering wheel, and vehicle steering wheel device23 Apr 2024US 11,964,720 B2Autoliv Development AB
- Steering control device and power steering device13 Feb 2024US 11,897,559 B2Nidec Corporation
- Steering wheel damping apparatus and automobile steering wheel damping system18 Jun 2026US 2026/0167265 A1Shanghai Lingang Joyson Safety Systems Co., Ltd.
- Steering wheel21 Aug 2025US 2025/0263105 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
- Directly injection-molded steering wheel damper and manufacturing method thereof28 Mar 2024US 2024/0100752 A1Aia Co., Ltd.
- Driver seat airbag device29 Feb 2024US 2024/0067117 A1Autoliv Development AB
- Steering wheel9 Feb 2023US 2023/0039647 A1Dalphi Metal Espana S.A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Collapsible steering column28US 4,674,354 A1987
- Steering wheel assembly having an air bag device28US 5,383,682 AToyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. · 1995
- Vehicle steering wheel with an integrated gas bag module28US 5,584,503 ATRW Repa GmbH · 1996
- Component for absorbing energy26US 5,040,646 AKolbenschmidt Aktiengesellschaft · 1991
- Energy absorbing steering wheel assembly24US 4,390,193 AGeneral Motors Corporation · 1983