Motor vehicle steering wheel provided with controls with rear projection
AssigneeFerrari S.P.A.
InventorPatrizio Spaggiari
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Abstract
A motor vehicle steering wheel provided with controls for the turn indicators; the steering wheel has: a central hub, which is mounted so as to rotate; an outer crown, which is rigidly coupled to the central hub by means of at least two spokes; and two controls, each of which is mounted on a corresponding spoke to be actuated with a vertical movement and operate the right turn indicators and the left turn indicators; each control has a rear appendage, which projects from the rear side of the corresponding spoke; and each control can be actuated with a vertical movement in a direction to operate the left turn indicators and can be actuated with a vertical movement in an opposite direction to operate the right turn indicators.
Claims8
A motor vehicle steering wheel provided with controls to operate a first device and a second device of the motor vehicle;
- the steering wheel comprises:
- a central hub, which is mounted so as to rotate around a rotation axis;
- an outer crown, which extends around the central hub, is suited to be held by the driver, and is rigidly coupled to the central hub by means of at least two spokes, each of which has corresponding upper and lower surfaces arranged parallel to the rotation axis;
- and
- at least one control, which is mounted on the upper or lower surface of the corresponding spoke and operates the two devices;
- wherein the control comprises only a single actuating element mounted in a movable manner on the upper or lower surface of the corresponding spoke;
- wherein the single actuating element of each control is mounted in the corresponding spoke so as to be able to be actuated with a radial movement with respect to the rotation axis, that is with a vertical movement when the steering wheel is in the neutral position;
- wherein the single actuating element of each control has a rear appendage, which projects from the rear side of the corresponding spoke to axially come out of a rear wall of the spoke itself;
- and
- wherein the single actuating element of each control can be actuated with a radial movement with respect to the rotation axis in a direction to operate the first device and can be actuated with a radial movement with respect to the rotation axis in an opposite direction to operate the second device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.