A steering wheel horn assembly having two sections with an annular electrical circuit board member interposed and disposed between the sections and electrically coupled to a power source, an electrical ground, and an electrical horn. Also disposed within the two sections is an annular button membrane with a plurality of deformably resilient horn buttons, wherein each of the plurality of deformably resilient horn buttons have a terminal front surface and a rear surface opposing the terminal front surface and that is disposed adjacent to the annular electrical circuit board member, have a static position along a button translation path projecting through one of the plurality enclosed apertures, and have a depressed position with the rear surface directly coupled to the annular electrical circuit board member and electrically completing a circuit on the annular electrical circuit board member and causing the electrical horn to generate the audible sound.
Steering wheel horn assembly
2020-02-18
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | H01H Elektrische Schalter , ELECTRIC SWITCHES / B60Q ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL , Anordnung von Signal- oder Beleuchtungsvorrichtungen, deren Einbau oder Halterung oder deren Schaltkreise bei Fahrzeugen allgemein / B60R Fahrzeuge, Fahrzeugausstattung oder Fahrzeugteile, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen , VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR / B62D MOTOR VEHICLES , Motorfahrzeuge / H05K PRINTED CIRCUITS , Gedruckte Schaltungen |
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