Patent ID: 7210372

Claim:
A leathered steering wheel comprising: a ring portion having a covered layer on which a leather layer is arranged; the leather layer provided with a plurality of leather materials, each leather material having a main portion and end portions defined on both ends of each leather material in a longitudinal direction thereof, wherein the leather materials are joined to one another along a circumferential direction of said ring portion by stitching at said end portions of the leather materials, a thin portion being formed at each end portion of the leather materials by thinning a back side of said end portion such that a thickness of the thin portion at a stitching portion of said end portion, which is to be stitched to an end portion of the adjacent leather material, is reduced relative to the main portion, wherein a stitching thread is located within the thin portion, and the stitching thread is exposed on a back side of the leather material at the stitching portion, and a length L 1 from the stitching portion to an end face of said leather material is set to be substantially equal to or slightly smaller than a thickness t 1 of said leather material at a main portion thereof, so that said end face of said end portion is brought into abutment with said covered layer of said ring portion.