Patent ID: 7784825
Filing Date: 2010-08-31
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A vehicle steering wheel, comprising a gas bag module and a shield being immovably fastened on the steering wheel adjacent to and surrounding the gas bag module, the vehicle steering wheel further comprising at least one separate elastic positioning element which establishes the position of a covering cap of the gas bag module relative to the adjacent shield, the positioning element being made in one piece and designed so that it exerts a pre-stressing force onto the gas bag module in an axial direction of the vehicle steering wheel and in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the vehicle steering wheel, wherein the positioning element comprises a support section with a U-shaped profile which is held in a cut-out of the shield, first fitting sections resting against a side wall of the wall of the covering cap, and opposed second fitting sections resting against the shield.