US 12,409,878 B2
Steering device and method of wrapping synthetic leather
Tatsuya Yamada, Kiyosu (JP); Seiji Egawa, Kiyosu (JP); Kazuki Nemoto, Kiyosu (JP); and Shintaro Nakamura, Kiyosu (JP)
Assigned to TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., Aichi-pref. (JP)
Filed by TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., Kiyosu (JP)
Filed on Mar. 12, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/602,109.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-053604 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2023; and application No. 2024-026295 (JP), filed on Feb. 26, 2024.
Prior Publication US 2024/0326893 A1, Oct. 3, 2024
Int. Cl. B62D 1/04 (2006.01); B32B 1/00 (2024.01); B32B 3/02 (2006.01); B32B 3/14 (2006.01); B32B 7/04 (2019.01); B32B 7/09 (2019.01); B32B 9/02 (2006.01); B32B 15/04 (2006.01); B62D 1/06 (2006.01); B32B 15/08 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 1/06 (2013.01) [B32B 3/14 (2013.01); B32B 7/09 (2019.01); B32B 1/00 (2013.01); B32B 9/025 (2013.01); B32B 15/08 (2013.01); B32B 2307/536 (2013.01); B32B 2307/546 (2013.01); B32B 2605/003 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A steering device comprising:
a main body including a metal core; and
a synthetic leather part wrapped around the main body, wherein
the synthetic leather part comprises a first synthetic leather part, a second synthetic leather part, and a first sewing part, the second synthetic leather part is made of a different material from the first synthetic leather part, the first sewing part has a linear shape formed by sewing the first synthetic leather part and the second synthetic leather part together, and
the first sewing part is formed to extend in a direction not toward a center of the steering device in a front view of the steering device, wherein
the first synthetic leather part has a different hardness from the second synthetic leather part.