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US 11,560,119 B1Granted
Pregnancy seat belt or safety harness
OwnerBill Birgen, Wes Crossinventors
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Abstract
A pregnancy seat belt that secures an expectant mother and her unborn baby due to the absence of a lap belt traversing the expectant mother's abdomen. The expectant mother is secured instead by a center belt and/or thigh-belts that secure the mother at her thighs and avoid traverse of her abdomen.
Claims6
A pregnancy seat belt, comprising:
- a length of seat belt strap material with a seat belt buckle on each end of the length;
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- left and right thigh-belts, each left and right thigh-belt with a loop on first ends and a latch-plate on the second ends;
- wherein the length of seat belt strap material and the left and right thigh-belts are securable to a lap belt restraint of an existing seat belt installed in a vehicle and the latch-plates are securable to the seat belt buckles over the thighs of an expectant mother.
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A pregnancy seat belt, comprising:
- left and right T-shaped garters of seat belt strap material, the T-shaped garters comprised of a center segment with a loop at a first end of the center segment and that intersects a thigh-loop segment at a second end of the center segment, the thigh-loop segments with a seat belt buckle and a latch-plate at opposite ends of the thigh-loop segments, the loop at each first ends is securable to a lap belt restraint by the loops at the first ends of the center segments around the lap belt restraint and threading the first ends through the loops.
A pregnancy seat belt, comprising:
- a U-shaped double buckled center belt of seat belt strap material, with a seat belt buckle on each end of the U-shaped double buckled center belt;
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- left and right thigh-straps with loops at the first ends and latch plates at second ends of the left and right thigh-straps;
- wherein the U-shaped double buckled center belt is securable by a knot to a lap belt restraint and the left and right thigh-straps are securable to the lap belt restraint by the loops and the U-shaped seat belt buckle center belt may be pulled up between the thighs of an expectant mother and the latch plates of the left and right thigh-straps securable to each of the seat belt buckles of the U-shaped double seat belt buckle center belt.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.