# US 11,440,500 B2 · Vehicle occupant restraint structure > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,440,500 B2 - Document ID: US11440500B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/167,086 - Filed: 2021-02-04 - Published: 2021-08-12 - Granted: 2022-09-13 - Earliest claimed: 2020-02-10 - Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha - Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Jumpei Watanabe; Yasuhiro Hara; Norimasa Koreishi; Hirotaka Ishioka - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11440500B2 ## CPC - B60R 22/24: secured to the side, door, or roof of the vehicle - B62D 33/06: Drivers' cabs {(overhead guards, e.g. against loads falling down B60R21/11; roll-over protection B60R21/13)} - B60R 21/026: {Rigid partitions inside vehicles, e.g. between passengers and load compartments (B60R21/12 takes precedence)} - B60R 22/12: Construction of belts or harnesses (B60R21/18 takes precedence {; woven fabrics for safety belts D03D1/0005}) - B60R 22/18: Anchoring devices - B62D 25/02: Side panels {(B62D33/046 takes precedence; sideboards for open load compartments B62D33/023)} - B62D 25/06: Fixed roofs (non-fixed roofs or like shelters B60J7/00; roof liners B60R13/02; insulating elements B60R13/08) - B62D 25/2036: {the subunits being side panels, sills or pillars (B62D21/157 takes precedence)} - B60R 22/34: Belt retractors, e.g. reels (anchoring devices {, e.g. guide loops} , with means to tension the belt in an emergency B60R22/195) - B60R: VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - B62D: MOTOR VEHICLES; TRAILERS (steering, or guiding on a desired track, of agricultural machines or implements A01B69/00; wheels, castors, axles, increasing wheel adhesion B60B; vehicle tyres, tyre inflation or tyre changing B60C; connections between vehicles of a train or the like B60D; vehicles for use on rail and road, amphibious or convertible vehicles B60F; suspension arrangements B60G; heating, cooling, ventilating or other air treating devices B60H; windows, windscreens, non-fixed roofs, doors or similar devices, protective coverings for vehicles not in use B60J; propulsion plant arrangements, auxiliary drives, transmissions, controls, instrumentation or dashboards B60K; electric equipment or propulsion of electrically-propelled vehicles B60L; power supply for electrically-propelled vehicles B60M; passenger accommodation not otherwise provided for B60N; adaptations for load transportation or to carry special loads or objects B60P; arrangement of signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor, for vehicles in general B60Q; vehicles, vehicle fittings or vehicle parts not otherwise provided for B60R; servicing, cleaning, repairing, supporting, lifting, or manoeuvring, not otherwise provided for, B60S; brake arrangements, brake control systems or parts thereof B60T; air-cushion vehicles B60V; motor-cycles, accessories therefor B62J, B62K; testing of vehicles G01M) ## Abstract A partition portion that partitions a cabin in a front-rear direction of a vehicle is disposed on a vehicle rear side with respect to a seat. A restraint device is partially attached to the partition portion, and a webbing of the restraint device is withdrawn from a partition portion side. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A vehicle occupant restraint structure, comprising: a vehicle seat provided in a cabin of a vehicle, the vehicle seat being a driver seat; a partition portion that is disposed on a vehicle rear side with respect to the vehicle seat and partitions the cabin in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; and a restraint device that is partially attached to the partition portion, includes a webbing that is withdrawable from a side of the partition portion, and allows an occupant seated on the vehicle seat to be restrained, the occupant being a driver, wherein the vehicle seat is disposed on a center side of the cabin in a width direction of the vehicle, the vehicle occupant restraint structure further comprises a support portion that supports the vehicle seat with respect to the partition portion, the restraint device includes a retractor and a buckle, the retractor being attached to the partition portion and from which the webbing is withdrawable, and the buckle allowing a tongue plate provided on the webbing to be engaged and being attached to the vehicle seat or the support portion, the partition portion includes a partition panel that has a plate shape extending in the width direction and in an up-down direction of the vehicle, and the partition panel is provided to bridge between a roof panel and a floor panel in the up-down direction of the vehicle, the roof panel constituting an upper portion of the cabin on a vehicle upper side, and the floor panel constituting a lower portion of the cabin on a vehicle lower side, the restraint device is partially attached to the partition panel, the partition panel partitions the cabin into a driver compartment and a passenger compartment, the vehicle seat is included in the driver compartment, the restraint device is a three-point seatbelt device having the retractor, the buckle, and a shoulder anchor, and the retractor and the shoulder anchor are fixed to the partition panel. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The vehicle occupant restraint structure according to claim 1, further comprising: wherein a first pillar portion that is disposed on a first side of the partition portion in the width direction of the vehicle and extends in the up-down direction of the vehicle, a second pillar portion that is disposed on a second side of the partition portion in the width direction of the vehicle and extends in the up-down direction of the vehicle, an upper cross portion that is connected to the first pillar portion and the second pillar portion directly or via first members, extends in the width direction of the vehicle, and reinforces the roof panel, and a lower cross portion that is connected to the first pillar portion and the second pillar portion directly or via second members, extends in the width direction of the vehicle, and reinforces the floor panel. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The vehicle occupant restraint structure according to claim 1, further comprising a reinforcement member that reinforces the partition panel and extends in the up-down direction of the vehicle, wherein the reinforcement member constitutes, with the partition panel, a closed sectional structure in which a section as viewed in the up-down direction of the vehicle is closed and that extends in the up-down direction of the vehicle. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The vehicle occupant restraint structure according to claim 1, wherein the partition portion has a further partition panel, and the partition panel and the further partition panel are disposed at an interval from each other in the front-rear direction of the vehicle. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The vehicle occupant restraint structure according to claim 4, wherein the partition panel and the further partition panel define a pair of partition panels that partitions the cabin into the driver compartment and the passenger compartment. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The vehicle occupant restraint structure according to claim 5, further comprising a reinforcement member that reinforces the pair of partition panels, wherein the reinforcement member is sandwiched, in the front-rear direction, between the pair of partition panels and extends in the up-down direction of the vehicle. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The vehicle occupant restraint structure according to claim 1, wherein the support portion includes a pair of front support portions and a pair of rear support portions, an end portion of each of the pair of front support portions on the vehicle lower side is configured to be fixed to a cross member of the vehicle, each of the pair of rear support portions includes a rear wall portion having a plate thickness direction being the front-rear direction of the vehicle, each of the rear wall portions is fixed to the partition panel, and a lower end of the buckle is attached to one of the pair of rear support portions. ### Claim 8 A vehicle occupant restraint structure, comprising: a vehicle seat provided in a cabin; a partition portion that is disposed on a vehicle rear side with respect to the vehicle seat and partitions the cabin in a front-rear direction of a vehicle; and a restraint device that is partially attached to the partition portion, includes a webbing that is withdrawable from a side of the partition portion, and allows an occupant seated on the vehicle seat to be restrained, wherein the partition portion is provided to bridge between a roof panel and a floor panel in an up-down direction of the vehicle, the roof panel constituting an upper portion of the cabin on a vehicle upper side and the floor panel constituting a lower portion of the cabin on a vehicle lower side, the vehicle occupant restraint structure further comprises: a first pillar portion that is disposed on a first side of the partition portion in a width direction of the vehicle and extends in the up-down direction of the vehicle, a second pillar portion that is disposed on a second side of the partition portion in the width direction of the vehicle and extends in the up-down direction of the vehicle, an upper cross portion that is connected to the first pillar portion and the second pillar portion directly or via first members, extends in the width direction of the vehicle, and reinforces the roof panel, and a lower cross portion that is connected to the first pillar portion and the second pillar portion directly or via second members, extends in the width direction of the vehicle, and reinforces the floor panel, the vehicle occupant restraint structure comprises an annular structural portion that has an annular shape when viewed from the front-rear direction of the vehicle, the annular structural portion including the first pillar portion, the second pillar portion, the upper cross portion, and the lower cross portion, and the upper cross portion overlaps the lower cross portion in the up-down direction of the vehicle.