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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2017
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Shotaro Odate, Wako, JP;
Assignee:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 16/027 (2006.01); B62D 1/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 16/027 (2013.01); B62D 1/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided is a steering wheel unit with which misdetections due to contact between a steering wheel and the thigh part of the legs of an overweight person can be avoided, and gripping (contact) by a hand can be accurately detected. In a contact sensor, the contact sensitivity [pF/mm] of a prescribed area (an area including a blank portion on the side of a rim part of the steering wheel that is near a seat surface of a driver's seat when the vehicle is in a straight traveling state is set to be lower than the contact sensitivity of another area (an area comprising only a conductive part) of the rim part.