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Wolfram Engelhardt

Klaus Massanetz

Thomas Reiter

Marcus Weber

Sven Hoffmann

Alexander Feicht

Holger Zang

Felix Pollatschek

Tomasz Skoneczny

Michael Gruhne

Knut Schmeier

Dominik Zelmanski

A steering wheel includes a steering wheel body and a base. The base carrying an inflator and an airbag package, such that the base, the inflator and the airbag package form a first sub-assembly. The base is connected to the steering wheel body at least indirectly via at least one elastic element, such that the sub-assembly can move relative to the steering wheel body in at least one direction so that the whole sub-assembly serves as a vibration damping mass. The steering wheel also includes a cover element with a roof extending over the airbag package, and at least one horn sensor generating a signal when a pressing force exceeding a predefined value is applied to the roof. The cover element is not rigidly connected to the base, such that the sub-assembly can move relative to the steering wheel body under deformation of the elastic element while the cover element does not move relative to the steering wheel body.

Steering wheel with vibration damping mass

An apparatus for the damping of vibrations in a steering column in a motor vehicle, having a mounting () and an accommodation device () elastically supported in the mounting () to which a gas generator () is secured, a separate supplemental weight () is secured to the gas generator () or to the accommodation device () to provide desired vibration damping characteristics of the steering column assembly.

Device for damping vibrations

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Dachau, Germany

Wolfram Engelhardt