Appeal No. 00-0910
Application No. 08/821,176
Appellants’ invention pertains to a modular steering
wheel and airbag combination, and in particular to a worm gear
drive arrangement for attaching said combination to the
steering column of a vehicle. A further understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
a copy of which appears in the appendix to appellants’
supplemental brief.
By way of background, the present application is a
continuation-in-part of U.S. Patent 5,692,770 to Scharboneau.
The Scharboneau patent lists four (4) coinventors, one of
whom, Sheryar Durrani, is also listed as one of the two (2)
coinventors of the present application. Thus, the present
application and the Scharboneau patent share one common
inventor, namely Sheryar Durrani. As a further point of
information, the present application and the Scharboneau
patent currently are not commonly assigned. The specification
of the present application includes all of the subject matter
disclosed in the Scharboneau patent, and in addition includes
Figures 16 and 17 drawn to another arrangement for attaching
the modular steering wheel and airbag combination to a
steering column. The present application and the Scharboneau
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