Abstract
A temperature-controlled steering wheel for heating and cooling the user's hands while steering a vehicle. The temperature-controlled steering wheel includes a steering wheel member having an arcuate channel disposed therein; and also includes an arcuate outer tubular member being disposed in the endless channel of the steering wheel member; and further includes an arcuate inner tubular member being disposed in the endless channel of the steering wheel member and the outer tubular member; and also includes an assembly for heating the steering wheel member including a liquid being disposed in the inner tubular member.
Key facts
- Application
- 10/090,105Filed 5 Mar 2002
- Granted
- 21 Jan 2003
- Term ends
- Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.
Classification4 codes
- H05B 1/0236
Industrial applications: for vehicles
- B62D 1/065
Rims, e.g. with heating means; Rim covers: steering wheels with heating and ventilating means
- H05B
Electric heating
- B62D
Motor vehicles
Family
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