Steering wheel
AssigneeBreed Automotive Technology, Inc.
InventorsGiuseppe Testa, Adolfo Ridolfi, Paolo Vian
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a motor car steering wheel with an external shell made of carbon fibers, which comprises preparing a pile of sheet materials, hot molding thereof for obtaining respective half-shells with a shape corresponding to that of respective halves of the steering wheel being manufactured, mechanical flattening of the front surfaces of the two half-shells, mounting of the two half-shells above and under a steering wheel body formed by a metallic core covered by resin. The steering wheel body has lateral profiles which act as fixing supports for the two half-shells.
Claims8
A steering wheel comprising:
- a steering wheel body formed by a metallic core covered by resin, said steering wheel body having lateral profile members;
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- two half-shells mounted above and under said steering wheel, wherein said lateral profile members support the two half-shells, said lateral profile members comprise two lateral flanges arranged at a side of the steering wheel body and an intermediate rib.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.