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US 4,541,301 AGranted
Steering wheel
AssigneeToyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
InventorsSatoshi Ono, Hiroshi Sugita, Tetsushi Hiramitsu
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Abstract
A steering wheel includes a column, a steering shaft extending through the column, a spoke mounted on the steering shaft, a steering ring supported on the spoke, a pad mounted on the steering shaft in front of the spoke, and a helical member interconnecting the pad and the column to fix the pad nonrotatably with respect to the column and helically coiled as a number of turns which is greater than the maximum number of rotations of the steering ring, the helical member having a portion extending across the spoke.
Claims7
A steering wheel comprising:
- (a) a column;
- (b) a steering shaft extending through said column;
- (c) a spoke mounted on said steering shaft;
- (d) a steering ring supported on said spoke;
- (e) a pad mounted on said steering shaft in front of said spoke;
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- (f) a helical member interconnecting said pad and said column to fix said pad nonrotatably with respect to said column and helically coiled as a number of turns which is greater than the maximum number of rotations of said steering ring, said helical member having a portion extending across said spoke.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.