ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,275, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).
"Steering wheel and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Jinkeun Kim (Kanagawa, Japan), Gurudatt Chattaraki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Marudhu Pandi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering wheel having a retaining spring has a pin engagement section that engages with a pin of an airbag module that is positioned inside a mounting hole to install the airbag module on a core bar. A base section of the core bar is provided with a spring mounting section to which the retaining spring is mounted. The spring mounting section includes a ...