Seat belt attachment/detachment detection switch
AssigneeHosiden Corporation
InventorsKenjiro Desaki, Takahide Kawanishi
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Abstract
A seat belt attachment/detachment detection switch including a printed circuit board including a circuit for detecting attachment/detachment of a seat belt; a movable plate configured to slidably move along with insertion of a tongue plate of the seat belt; a rotor including a lever coupled to the movable plate, the rotor being rotatably attached to the printed circuit board to rotate as the tongue plate is pushed into a buckle; and an electric brush attached to the surface of the rotor that faces the printed circuit board, the electric brush having leg parts that change a state of contact/non-contact with a conductive part of the circuit in accordance with a rotating state of the rotor.
Claims8
A seat belt attachment/detachment detection switch, comprising:
- a printed circuit board including a circuit for detecting attachment/detachment of a seat belt;
- a movable plate configured to slidably move along with insertion of a tongue plate of the seat belt;
- a rotor including a lever coupled to the movable plate, the rotor being rotatably attached to the printed circuit board to rotate as the tongue plate is pushed into a buckle;
- an electric brush attached to a surface of the rotor that faces the printed circuit board, the electric brush having leg parts that change a state of contact/non-contact with a conductive part of the circuit in accordance with a rotating state of the rotor;
- a protrusion provided at a tip of the lever, the protrusion protruding in a direction away from the printed circuit board and being inserted into a groove provided on the movable plate, wherein
- the groove includes
- a first linear part extending in a tongue plate extracting direction, and
- an inclination part positioned more in a tongue plate extracting direction than the first linear part and extending in the tongue plate extracting direction with an inclination at an angle θ, provided that θ<90°, based on the extending direction of the first linear part, and
- a second linear part positioned more in the tongue plate extracting direction than the inclination part and extending in parallel to the extending direction of the first linear part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.