Vehicle steering wheel with heating device
AssigneeAutoliv Development AB
InventorArthur Meunier
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Abstract
A vehicle steering wheel having a rim to be gripped by a driver of the vehicle, a trim casing arranged to cover a body of the rim so as to at least partially form an outer surface of the rim, a flexible heating device inserted between the trim casing and the body of the rim, comprising at least one heating track, wherein the heating track is a surface track deposited on the flexible heating device, and in that the rim body comprises at least one groove arranged to house at least one part of the flexible heating device, said at least one part comprising a portion of the surface track.
Claims15
A vehicle steering wheel comprising:
- a rim to be gripped by a driver of the vehicle;
- a trim casing arranged to cover a body of the rim so as to at least partially form an outer surface of the rim;
- a flexible heating device inserted between the trim casing and the body of the rim, comprising at least one heating track, wherein the heating track is a surface track deposited on the flexible heating device, and in that the body of the rim comprises at least one groove arranged so as to house at least one part of the flexible heating device, said at least one part comprising a portion of the surface track, and wherein the portion of the surface track housed in the groove comprises at least one curved or bent region of the surface track corresponding to a specific area having a higher heating power than adjacent portions of the surface track.
A motor vehicle comprising a vehicle steering wheel, said vehicle steering wheel comprising:
- a rim to be gripped by a driver of the vehicle;
- a trim casing arranged to cover a body of the rim so as to at least partially form an outer surface of the rim;
- a flexible heating device inserted between the trim casing and the body of the rim, comprising at least one heating track, wherein the heating track is a surface track deposited on the flexible heating device, and in that the body of the rim comprises at least one groove arranged so as to house at least one part of the flexible heating device, said at least one part comprising a portion of the surface track, and wherein the at least one heating track comprises at least one specific area corresponding to at least one curved or bent region of the surface track, the at least one specific area having a higher heating power than adjacent portions of the surface track, and wherein the at least one groove is configured to receive the at least one specific area so as to position the at least one specific area away from the outer surface of the rim.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.