Horn switch device for steering wheel
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorsSang Min Jo, Jin Ho Bae
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Abstract
A horn switch device for a steering wheel may include an airbag module mounted in an inner region of the steering wheel to perform pressing and restoring operations while being elastically supported by a plurality of horn springs, a link plate assembly mounted on a lower surface of the airbag module and including a plurality of link plates to facilitate a seesaw movement, a module-side horn contact point positioned at the fixed end portion of each link plate and toward the outside of the airbag module, and a wheel-side horn contact point positioned below the module-side horn contact point. A horn operation is produced when the wheel-side horn contact point contacts with the module-side horn contact point.
Claims9
A horn switch device for a steering wheel, comprising:
- a center module mounted in an inner region of the steering wheel to perform pressing and restoring operations while being elastically supported by a plurality of horn springs;
- a link plate assembly mounted on a lower surface of the center module and including a plurality of link plates to facilitate a seesaw movement, wherein each link plate includes:
- one end portion fixed to the center module at an outside of the center module,
- the other end portion coupled together with the other end portions of other link plates in the plurality of link plates at a center of the center module, and
- a central portion supported by a link plate support formed in the steering wheel;
- a module-side horn contact point positioned at the fixed end portion of each link plate and toward the outside of the center module;
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- a wheel-side horn contact point positioned below the module-side horn contact point, wherein a horn operation is produced when the wheel-side horn contact point and the module-side horn contact point contact with each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.