Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Itsuhiko Hirota

Akitoshi Naganawa

Masaaki Mori

Kazuma Muramatsu

A steering device pad is disposed on an upper face of a boss portion in a steering device, and a design portion is disposed in a region of a ceiling wall portion covering the boss portion. The steering device pad includes a pad body and a light source unit disposed on a back face of a ceiling wall portion of the pad body. The ceiling wall portion includes a low translucent portion and a high translucent portion having different light transmittances. The high translucent portion constitutes the design portion so as to be configured to transmit light emitted from the light source unit.

Steering device pad

A housing unit doesn't include a configuration for fixing a lens cover and includes a housing contact part contacting the lens cover with respect to the reference direction. The lens cover doesn't include a configuration for fixing a lens mount and includes a lens cover contact part contacting the lens mount. The lens mount doesn't include a configuration for fixing a substrate and includes a lens mount contact part contacting the substrate. The substrate doesn't include a configuration for fixing a bottom wall unit and includes a substrate contact part contacting the bottom wall unit. The housing unit includes a housing engagement part. The bottom wall unit includes a bottom wall engagement part. The engagement between the housing engagement part and the bottom wall engagement part fixes the housing unit and the bottom wall unit relative to each other with respect to the reference direction.

Light illuminator and steering device

A steering device comprises: a rotary part provided in a manner allowing rotation about a rotary axis; a peripheral part arranged at a position farther from the rotary axis than the rotary part, and having a size in a direction of the rotary axis smaller than a size thereof in a direction of the rotation; and a light-emitting part provided at the rotary part. The light-emitting part includes: a light-emitting element; and a light-transmitting cover. The light-transmitting cover includes: a first surface where light from the light-emitting element is received; and a second surface on an opposite side to the first surface, and emitting the light received at the first surface toward the peripheral part. The light-transmitting cover includes: an inclined portion configured in such a manner that, as getting farther from the peripheral part along the second surface, the first surface gets closer to the second surface.

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Kiyosu, Japan

Itsuhiko Hirota