Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft

Peter Beher

Ulrich Seiffert

Wilfried Schwanz

Hannu Paitula

A safety device for a vehicle steering wheel is designed to provide increased protection against injury in the event the driver's head strikes the steering wheel on the occurrence of a collision. Increased protection against a head injury is provided by an impact energy dissipating member which provides increased energy dissipation upon impact by a relatively small object, such as the driver's head, as compared to prior devices which protected merely against impact by the entire body. The dissipating member includes first and second hollow bodies arranged one within the other.

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Wolfsburg, Germany

Peter Beher