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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 1984
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1983
Tomokazu Sugiyama, Fuji, JP;
Nihon Plast Co., Ltd., Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
An automotive horn switch structure has a contact plate secured to a steering wheel and electrically connected to a minus terminal of an electric power source, a horn spring connected by an electric wire to an electrically energizable horn and having integral contact points movable into contact with the contact plate by a horn button mounted on the steering wheel, and a fastener of a plastic material fastening the contact plate, the horn spring and the wire together. The fastener has a pair of self-locking legs securing the contact plate to the fastener and a pair of spaced self-locking legs which grasp and hold the horn spring and an exposed end of the wire together to form an electrical connection therebetween.