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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Aichi-ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
74552 ; 280731 ;
Abstract
A steering wheel mounted on a steering shaft with a boss plate. The steering wheel has a gripping ring for manually turning a steering shaft. The steering wheel includes a metal ring core embedded in the gripping ring and connecting pieces formed integrally with the boss plate. Spoke cores extend between the ring core and the connecting pieces and each has a first end coupled to the ring core and a second end overlapping one of the connecting pieces. A fastener fastens together the spoke cores and connecting pieces at the second end of each spoke core.