Dynamic guide providing upper anchorage for a vehicle seatbelt
AssigneeAtieva, Inc.
InventorsAndrey Ivov Kossev, Alan Del Toro
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Abstract
A seatbelt system for an occupant of a vehicle comprises: an anchor point attached to a body of the vehicle; seatbelt webbing extending from the anchor point toward the occupant; and a dynamic guide for the seatbelt webbing positioned between the anchor point and a shoulder of the occupant, the dynamic guide comprising a lid attached to a base, the seatbelt webbing extending through the dynamic guide and exiting through an opening between the lid and the base, the dynamic guide configured so that the lid at least partially separates from the base at a first predetermined tension in the seatbelt webbing laterally in the vehicle.
Claims15
A seatbelt system for an occupant of a vehicle, the seatbelt system comprising:
- an anchor point attached to a body of the vehicle;
- seatbelt webbing extending from the anchor point toward the occupant;
- a dynamic guide for the seatbelt webbing positioned between the anchor point and a shoulder of the occupant, the dynamic guide comprising a lid attached to a base, the seatbelt webbing extending through the dynamic guide and exiting through an opening between the lid and the base, the dynamic guide configured so that the lid at least partially separates from the base at a first predetermined tension in the seatbelt webbing laterally in the vehicle;
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- a seatbelt retractor attached to the body of the vehicle, wherein the seatbelt webbing is attached to the seatbelt retractor, wherein the anchor point is positioned between the seatbelt retractor and the dynamic guide, and wherein the first predetermined tension is lower than a second predetermined tension corresponding to a load limit tension of the seatbelt retractor.
A seatbelt system for an occupant of a vehicle, the seatbelt system comprising:
- an anchor point attached to a body of the vehicle;
- seatbelt webbing extending from the anchor point toward the occupant;
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- a dynamic guide for the seatbelt webbing positioned between the anchor point and a shoulder of the occupant, the dynamic guide comprising a lid attached to a base, the seatbelt webbing extending through the dynamic guide and exiting through an opening between the lid and the base, the dynamic guide configured so that the lid at least partially separates from the base at a first predetermined tension in the seatbelt webbing laterally in the vehicle, wherein the dynamic guide has a disengagement mechanism for releasing the lid from the base at the first predetermined tension in the seatbelt webbing, and wherein the disengagement mechanism is configured to rupture at the first predetermined tension in the seatbelt webbing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.