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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2014
Applicant:
Soongsil University Research Consortium Techno-park, Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Jin Oh Kim, Seoul, KR;
Dae Jong Kim, Siheung-si, KR;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 9/00 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2012.01); B60W 50/16 (2012.01); B60R 16/023 (2006.01); G08B 21/06 (2006.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 9/00 (2013.01); B60R 16/0232 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 50/16 (2013.01); G07C 5/0816 (2013.01); G08B 21/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A warning alarm apparatus for a steering wheel includes at least one piezoelectric transducer provided in the rim of the steering wheel; a current supplier; one or more sensors, equipped in the steering wheel or a motor vehicle, sense a dangerous factor; and a controller that determines whether a sensor value sensed by the sensor is included in a warning alarm range, and controls operation of the current supplier according to the sensor value.