Patent ID: 7112754
Filing Date: 2006-09-26
Classification: B60Q,B60R,H01H

Abstract:
1. A device for activating electric functional groups on steering wheels of motor vehicles, having at least two contacts which are opposite one another and which can be moved into contact with one another in order to activate the functional group and which slide against one another during contact in order to clean themselves, the contacts lying opposite one another being each attached to a carrier element, which carrier elements can both be deformed elastically so that both contacts are elastically moved and slide against each other in generally opposite directions to one another, and the device being embodied as a separate assembly which can be attached to the location of use, characterized in that the device has two sheet-metal parts as carrier elements which are connected by means of a plurality of encapsulations of insulative material, the two sheet-metal parts being arranged at a distance from one another, and in that the insulative encapsulations have latching elements.