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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2016
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Steven R. El Aile, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
John P. Joyce, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Andrew Brown, Canton, MI (US);
Scott J. Lauffer, Northville, MI (US);
Samer Abbas, Dearborn, MI (US);
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A dashboard assembly for a vehicle includes a dashboard defining a receiving niche. The niche is alignable with a driver seat location, and is selectively fillable by each of a removable steering module and a removable filler module. The removable steering module includes a steering module base. A steering wheel support is fixed to the steering module base. A steering wheel is rotatably fixed to the steering wheel support. A steering wheel connector connects the steering wheel to a vehicle steering actuator. The removable filler module includes a filler module base.