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US 7,070,200 B2Granted
Air bag case assembly
AssigneeHyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
InventorJung Bae An
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is an air bag case assembly for vehicles, which comprises a track mounted to an air bag case, and a rail mounted to the hub of a steering wheel and configured to allow the track to engage therein. In a state wherein the track is aligned so as to be engaged into grooves of the rail along a circumferential direction of the hub of the steering wheel, as the air bag case is rotated so that the track is inserted into the grooves of the rail, the track and rail are engaged with each other, thereby allowing the air bag case to be firmly assembled to the hub of the steering wheel.
Claims11
An air bag case assembly comprising:
- an air bag case disposed on a hub centrally provided in a steering wheel, the air bag case being installed therein with an air bag, and an inflator that supplies expansion gas to the air bag;
- a rail mounted to the hub of the steering wheel, the rail having a first groove defined at the side of the air bag case, and a second groove defined at the side of the hub of the steering wheel, the first groove having a width narrower than a width of the second groove;
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- a track mounted to the air bag case, the track having a first portion located at the side of the air bag case, and a second portion located at the side of the hub of the steering wheel, the first portion having a width narrower than a width of the second portion, in correspondence to the grooves of the rail, so that the track is engaged into the grooves of the rail, thereby allowing the air bag case to be assembled to the hub of the steering wheel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.