Patent ID: 7004048

Claim:
A steering handle for use in a vehicle, comprising: a hub designed to be mounted to a steering shaft of the vehicle; a pair of left and right grips for being gripped by a driver for steering, said grips being slidably mounted to said hub for undergoing sliding movement toward and away from each other in a radial direction of the hub so that a diameter of the steering handle is changeable; an electric motor disposed in said hub for driving said left and right grips to undergo sliding movement; a controller disposed in said hub for controlling the amount of sliding movement of said left and right grips via said electric motor in accordance with a vehicle speed in such a manner that the left and right grips move toward each other to achieve a steering handle with a small diameter when the vehicle is traveling at a low speed, and the left and right grips moves away from each other to achieve a steering handle with a large diameter when the vehicle is traveling at a high speed.