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US 10,549,708 B2Granted
Air belt apparatus for vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsSoo-Chul Lee, Taeg-Young An, Jae-Soon Cho
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Abstract
An air belt apparatus for a vehicle may include an air belt coupled to an inflator formed at a predetermined position in a seat back, the air belt being configured to be placed on a shoulder portion of a driver, and a seat belt including a webbing passing through the air belt, the webbing being extracted from a retractor spaced from the inflator with a predetermined distance.
Claims7
An air belt apparatus for a vehicle comprising:
- an air belt coupled to an inflator formed at a predetermined position in a seat back, the air belt being configured to be disposed on a shoulder portion of a driver, and
- a seat belt including a webbing passing through the air belt, the webbing being extracted from a retractor spaced from the inflator with a predetermined distance,
- wherein the air belt includes:
- a cushion device configured to be inflated and deployed by air supplied from the inflator;
- a sleeve through which the webbing asses;
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- webbing-passing holes formed in respective opposite end portions of the sleeve,
- wherein guide ribs and webbing strikers are provided on an internal surface of a first side of the sleeve, the guide ribs being configured to guide movement of the webbing, the webbing strikers being configured to control a movement of the webbing when the air belt is configured to be operated,
- wherein the guide ribs and the webbing strikers are provided with a predetermined gap therebetween, and
- wherein the webbing strikers are mounted between the guide ribs, and each of the webbing strikers is protrudingly formed at a height less than a height of each of the guide ribs.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.