US Patent Issued to Autoliv Development on Aug. 4 for "Steering wheel device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,034, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Steering wheel device for vehicle" was invented by Jinkeun Kim (Kanagawa, Japan), Yousuke Kato (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryohei Yoshihara (Kanagawa, Japan), Yutaka Hirota (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takanori Ikeda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering wheel deice comprising: a horn spring provided between a steering wheel and an airbag module which serves as a damper mass; a damper unit provided on the airbag module; and a pin, one end of which is held by the steering wheel, and at another end of which the damper unit is disposed in a slidable m...