Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Yoshitomo Kato

Tsutomu Ishii

Toshihito Yanagisawa

Yoshiteru Banno

Akira Yamashita

Hirotake Konaka

A steering wheel includes a metal core earthed to a body of a vehicle, an airbag device, an insulator, and a connector. The airbag device includes a bag holder supported by the metal core, wherein the bag holder forms part of a positive electric path connected to a horn device, an airbag coupled to the bag holder by a fastener, and an inflator including a circumferential portion that forms a flange, wherein the flange of the inflator is coupled by the fastener to the bag holder. The insulator insulates the bag holder from at least the flange and the fastener among elements of the airbag device. The connector electrically connects at least the flange, among the flange and the fastener, to the metal core.

Steering wheel

A head-protecting airbag device includes: an airbag including: an airbag body; and a connecting tab connected with a mounting bracket, wherein the mounting bracket includes: a mounting piece mounted on the body with a fixing means; and a connecting piece formed to project to both sides from a lower end of the mounting piece, and connected with the airbag; in the connecting tab, an insertion hole, into which the mounting piece is inserted, is disposed in a folded portion; the connecting tab includes a front side portion and a back side portion which extend from the folded portion to the airbag body and cover a font side and a back side of the connecting piece; and a loop coupling portion is disposed in a position where the mounting piece having the connecting piece stored in the connecting tab is prevented from coming off the insertion hole.

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Kiyosu, Japan

Yoshitomo Kato