Coupling device for mounting an airbag module to be oscillating on a vehicle steering wheel

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11718257
APP PUB NO 20230044002A1
SERIAL NO

17968900

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A coupling device (16) for mounting an airbag module (14) to be oscillating on a steering wheel structure (12) of a vehicle steering wheel (10) includes a mounting member (18) which includes, relative to a steering wheel axis, an axial bottom side (20) which in the assembled state of the vehicle steering wheel (10) faces the steering wheel structure (12) as well as an opposite axial top side (22) which in the assembled state of the vehicle steering wheel (10) faces the airbag module (14), a contact face (24) for a damping element (26) provided on the axial bottom side (20) for oscillating coupling of the mounting member (18) to the steering wheel structure (12), and comprising a locking element (28) disposed on the top side (22) of the mounting member (18) for locking with the prefabricated airbag module (14), wherein the locking element (28) is configured so that the airbag module (14) can be coupled to the mounting member (18) by a locking connection substantially in an axially fixed manner or in an axially restrictedly movable manner.

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ZF AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY GERMANY GMBHASCHAFFENBURG

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
McMillan, AnnMarie Washington, US 6 27
Ruprecht, Jeffrey M Rochester Hills, US 2 11
Schuetz, Dominik Heimbuchenthal, DE 10 24
Steele, James Macomb, US 59 682

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