B60R 2022/021
Means for holding the tongue or buckle in a non-use position
Official title: {Means for holding the tongue or buckle in a non-use position, e.g. for easy access by the user}
B60R2022/021 (Means for holding the tongue or buckle in a non-use position) appears on 107 US grants and 102 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60R- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
- 63
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- Latest grant
- 4 Nov 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Vehicle seat buckle assembly4 Nov 2025US 12,459,460 B2Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Stowable belt buckle9 Sep 2025US 12,409,804 B1GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Motor vehicle having at least one driver's seat29 Oct 2024US 12,128,851 B2Hsm Co., Ltd.
- Seat belt structure for a vehicle4 Jun 2024US 11,999,314 B1Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Webbing support device9 Apr 2024US 11,951,933 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
- Seatbelt device for pillarless vehicle and pillarless vehicle23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208689 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Seat structure2 Jul 2026US 2026/0184248 A1Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Seat26 Feb 2026US 2026/0054622 A1Delta Kogyo Co., Ltd.
- Seat belt buckle device30 May 2024US 2024/0174199 A1Autoliv Development AB
- Vehicle seat buckle assembly21 Mar 2024US 2024/0092309 A1Ford Global Technologies, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Seat belt module assembly52US 5,308,148 AIndiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc. · 1994
- Magnet-inclusive component suitable for use in occupant-protecting means for motor vehicle and fabrication process thereof44US 5,060,977 ANippon Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha · 1991
- Backup buckle for a seat belt32US 6,520,392 B22003
- Seat belt buckle31US 7,407,193 B2Takata Corporation · 2008
- Seat for vehicles, in particular two-door passenger automobiles23US 4,323,278 AVolkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft · 1982