Steering with airbag module
AssigneeTakata-Petri AG
InventorsAndreas Laue, Joachim Blattner, Wilhelm Schnabel
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Abstract
The invention relates to a steering wheel having an air-bag module which has a gas generator and an air bag and is covered with respect to the passenger compartment by means of a covering cap provided on the upper side of the steering wheel, the gas generator being provided as an oscillation damper by being mounted in the air-bag module in at least one element which is elastically deformable when the steering wheel oscillates. According to the invention, the gas generator (6) is peripherally mounted in the elastically deformable element (3, 34) and/or the elastically deformable element (19) has a peripheral sealing lip (26) which, after the gas generator is ignited, bears against the latter or against a component connected to the latter.
Claims17
Steering wheel having
- an air-bag module, wherein said air-bag module has a gas generator and an air bag, and
- wherein said air bag module is covered with respect to the passenger compartment by a covering cap provided on the upper side of the steering wheel,
- wherein the gas generator dampens oscillations by being mounted in the air-bag module in at least one element which is elastically deformable when the steering wheel oscillates,
- wherein the gas generator is peripherally mounted in the elastically deformable element, and
- wherein the elastically deformable element has a peripheral sealing lip which, after the gas generator is ignited, bears against the gas generator or against a component connected to the gas generator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.