Fastening structure for steering wheel

• US 7,810,783 B2
• Filed: 11/08/2006
• Issued: 10/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wen-Feng Tsay, Wen Hong Shen
• Original Assignee: Wen-Feng Tsay, Wen Hong Shen
• Inventors: Shen, Wen Hong, Tsay, Wen-Feng
• Primary Examiner(s): Shriver, II; J. Allen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Marsh; Steven M
• Application Number:
  US11/593,942
• Publication Number:
  US 20080104803A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,434 Days
• Field of Search: 248/693, 248/74.3, 248/229.17, 248/222.8, 248/230.8, 224/276
• US Class Current: 248/693
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 1/043 with a device allowing single-hand operation of the steering wheel
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/2708 Combined with diverse fastener

Abstract

A fastening structure for fastening a member to the rim of the steering wheel of a motor vehicle is disclosed to include a mounting base frame, which has two mounting holes at two distal ends for the mounting of an external member and two sets of hooks bilaterally protruded from the top wall between the mounting holes, and two elastic fastening belts, which have a hook hole one each of the respective two distal ends respectively hooked on the hooks at the mounting base frame to secure the mounting base frame to the rim of the steering wheel of the motor vehicle firmly in place.

Claims

1. A fastening structure comprising:

a mounting base frame, said mounting base frame comprising two mounting members respectively disposed at two distal ends thereof for the mounting of an external member, a first sets of hooks and a second set of hooks bilaterally protruded from a top wall between said mounting members, each hook of said first and said second sets of hooks respectively having an upper extension extending directly over an upper surface of said mounting base frame to form a gap between each respective upper extension and said upper surface of said mounting base frame; and

a plurality of elastic fastening belts for securing said mounting base frame to the rim of a vehicle steering wheel, said elastic fastening belts each having a first end provided with a first hook hole extending through each of said belts for fastening to said first set of hooks and a second end provided with a second hook hole extending through each of said belts for fastening to said second set of hooks,

wherein each gap of said first and said second sets of hooks faces a central lengthwise extending axis of said mounting base frame.

2. The fastening structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said mounting members of said mounting base frame are mounting holes.