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Toho Rayon Co., Ltd.

Keizoh Suzuki

Tsutomu Muraoka

Naoki Oe

Masanobu Wakita

Kazuyuki Satoh

Tohru Kaneko

Fuminori Komiya

Sakashi Hattori

To provide a steering wheel which is lightweight, and which has adequate strength and shock resistance, a carbon fiber prepreg,is wound on a mandrel,or a lightweight foam core,so as to obtain a preformer,. By heating this preformer,in a mold,, a steering wheel is obtained wherein the rim is formed from a fiber-reinforced synthetic resin joined to a metal skeleton

Method of manufacturing steering wheel

To provide a steering wheel which is lightweight, and which has adequate strength and shock resistance, a carbon fiber prepreg 13 is wound on a mandrel 11 or a lightweight foam core 40 so as to obtain a preformer 14. By heating this preformer 14 in a mold 18, a steering wheel is obtained wherein the rim is formed from a fiber-reinforced synthetic resin joined to a metal skeleton 23.

Steering wheel and method of manufacture

Steering wheel horn switch and its pad mounting structure

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Kani, Japan

Keizoh Suzuki