US 2026/0138663 A1Published application

Vehicle steering wheel device

OwnerRyotaro ISHIDA, Kazuhiro ABE +2inventors

InventorsRyotaro ISHIDA, Kazuhiro ABE, Keisuke HONMA, Sumit Sharma KUMAR

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Abstract

Provided is a device including: a housing 9 for holding an air bag cushion; a locking plate 8 provided on the back-side surface 9d of the housing with its plate surface overlaid thereon and provided with a damper unit assembled thereto; a coil spring for elastically supporting, on the steering wheel, the locking plate with the housing overlaid thereon; and a bushing 25 inserted through both the housing and the locking plate for fixing the coil spring. The bushing is fixed to the locking plate by being locked by means of a first locking means. The bushing having been fixed to the locking plate by means of the first locking means is fixed to the housing by being locked by means of a second locking means.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A vehicle steering wheel device comprising:

a holding plate member configured to hold an accessory member to a steering wheel of a vehicle;
an assembling plate member which is provided so as to be overlaid on the holding plate member and to which one or more accessory components to the steering wheel are assembled;
a coil spring elastically supporting, on the steering wheel, the assembling plate member on which the holding plate member is overlaid;
and
a bushing inserted through both of the holding plate member and the assembling plate member to fix the coil spring,
wherein the bushing is locked and fixed to the assembling plate member by means of a first locking means, and
wherein the bushing fixed to the assembling plate member by means of the first locking means is locked and fixed to the holding plate member by means of a second locking means.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 19/109,863Filed 24 Aug 2023
Priority: JP 2022-1438249 Sep 2022
Published: 21 May 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

B62D 1/04
Vehicle-mounted: hand wheels
B62D 1/10
Hand wheels: hubs; Connecting hubs to steering columns, e.g. adjustable
B60R 21/2037
Using modules containing inflator, bag and cover attachable to the steering wheel as a complete sub-unit: the module or a major component thereof…
B62D 7/222
Arrangements for reducing or eliminating reaction, e.g. vibration, from parts, e.g. wheels, of the steering system: acting on the steering wheel