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Patent No.:

US 9452770 B1

Date of Patent:

Sep. 27, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 24, 2014

Steering wheel

Applicant:

Nihon Plast Co., Ltd., Shizuoka, JP;

Inventor:

Tomotaka Ishikawa, Shizuoka, JP;

Assignee:

NIHON PLAST CO., LTD., Shizuoka, JP;

Attorney:

Arent Fox LLP

Primary Examiner:

Adam D Rogers

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

G05G 1/10 (2006.01); B62D 1/08 (2006.01); B62D 1/04 (2006.01); B62D 1/06 (2006.01); B29C 45/00 (2006.01); B29L 31/30 (2006.01); B29K 75/00 (2006.01);

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

B62D 1/04 (2013.01); B29C 45/0025 (2013.01); B62D 1/06 (2013.01); B29K 2075/00 (2013.01); B29L 2031/3047 (2013.01); Y10T 74/20834 (2015.01);

Abstract

A steering wheel of the present invention is provided with: a spoke cored bar portion configured to couple a boss cored bar portion and a rim cored bar portion to each other. At least a surface of a respective one of the rim cored bar portion and the spoke cored bar portion is covered with a synthetic resin. An inclined longitudinal wall portion is coupled to the spoke cored bar portion at a connection portion, and at an intermediate part of the connection portion, an easily deformable portion is formed. In this manner, it is possible to provide a steering wheel which is not degraded in appearance quality, even if a rib for preventing shrinkage of a resin is increased in size, the steering wheel having an excellent dynamic performance thereof.

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