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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1998
Barry Christian Worrell, Centerville, OH (US);
James Kent Conlee, Dayton, OH (US);
Brian Thomas Finnigan, Lewisburg, OH (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of making a steering hand wheel for a motor vehicle having a metal spider, a molded plastic rim, and a plurality of molded plastic spokes integral with the rim and mechanically interlocked with the spider. The method according to this invention includes the steps of extruding a billet having a cross sectional shape matching the profile of the spider, forming the spider by cutting off a flat section of the extruded billet from an end thereof, and insert molding a plastic rim and a plurality of integral plastic spokes around the spider. Each of the plastic spokes has an inboard end molded around a corresponding one of a plurality of spoke bases on the spider with a plurality of integral plastic pins captured in respective ones of a plurality of perforations in the spoke bases to mechanically interlock the spider and the molded plastic spokes.