Seat belt guide
AssigneeBreed Automotive Technology, Inc.
InventorMartin Specht
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A seat belt guide has a bearing axis for the pivotal mounting of a guide body on a vehicle structure. The guide body has a flexing bar around which the seat belt webbing is guided. A fixing plate can be fixed on the vehicle structure pivotally around the bearing axis with a fixing bolt. Two flexing bar carriers rigidly connect the flexing bar is to the fixing plate at its two ends. The guide body is deformable when a specific load originates from the seat belt webbing, the flexing bar bending substantially symmetrically with respect to the fixing bolt.
Claims17
A seat belt guide comprising a guide body having a flexing bar around which a seat belt webbing can be guided, the flexing bar having two ends, a fixing plate that can be fixed to a vehicle structure pivotally around the longitudinal axis of a cylindrical passage through the fixing plate, two flexing bar carriers connecting the flexing bar at its two ends to the fixing plate, weak points defining a deformation of the guide body are defined in the region of the fixing plate and the two flexing bar carriers, the weak points are arranged symmetrically with respect to a vertical center plane of the guide body, and an angle of incidence between the flexing bar and the fixing plate is at least 15°, the angle of incidence being formed between a plane located midway between the front and back surfaces of the fixing plate and parallel to said surfaces, and a line passing through the highest point of the flexing bar and the logitudinal axis of the cylindrical passage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.