Seat belt safety device
OwnerWilliam McGlynninventor
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Abstract
A seat belt safety device is configured with a first planar member including a slot opening for receiving a tongue latch of a second seat belt segment and a second planar member attached to at least one edge of the first planar member to extend at about 90° from a point of attachment so that upon insertion of a tongue latch through the slot opening, the second substantially planar member and contacts to lay substantially flat against a portion of an outer surface of the seat belt housing such that the seat belt safety device is substantially immobilized. The second planar member has a limited access opening centered and proximate the release button in the exposed surface of the housing so that when a tongue latch is inserted to latch and secure the first seat belt segment with the second seat belt segment.
Claims10
A seat belt safety device configured to prevent access to a release button located on an exposed surface of a seat belt housing substantially perpendicular to a housing side at which a first seat belt segment is affixed in a housing slot for receiving a tongue latch affixed to a second seat belt segment, which tongue latch is inserted in the housing slot to securely latch the first seat belt segment to the second seat belt segment, said seat belt safety device comprising:
- a first substantially planar member including a slot opening for receiving the tongue latch of the second seat belt segment;
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- a second substantially planar member attached to at least one edge of the first substantially planar member to extend at about 90° from a point of attachment so that when the tongue latch is inserted through the slot opening into the housing slot to latch, the second substantially planar member and contacts to lay substantially flat against a portion of an outer surface of the seat belt housing such that the seat belt safety device is substantially immobilized;
- wherein the second substantially planar member includes a limited access opening, substantially centered and proximate the release button in the exposed surface of a seat belt housing so that when a tongue latch is inserted through the slot opening into the housing slot to latch and secure the first seat belt segment with the second seat belt segment.
A seat belt safety device configured to prevent access to a release button located on an exposed surface of a seat belt housing substantially perpendicular to a housing side at which a first seat belt segment is affixed in a housing slot for receiving a tongue latch affixed to a second seat belt segment, which tongue latch is inserted in the housing slot to securely latch the first seat belt segment to the second seat belt segment, said seat belt safety device comprising:
- a first substantially planar member including a slot opening for receiving the tongue latch of the second seat belt segment;
- a second substantially planar member attached to at least one edge of the first substantially planar member to extend at about 90° from a point of attachment so that when the tongue latch is inserted through the slot opening into the housing slot to latch, the second substantially planar member and contacts to lay substantially flat against a portion of an outer surface of the seat belt housing such that the seat belt safety device is substantially immobilized,
- wherein the second substantially planar member includes a limited access opening, substantially centered and proximate the release button in the exposed surface of a seat belt housing so that when a tongue latch is inserted through the slot opening into the housing slot to latch and secure the first seat belt segment with the second seat belt segment;
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- a release actuator mechanism mounted on the substantially planar member at the access opening location and comprising a rotating member and an extending member attached to the rotating member that is configured to advance, extending through the access opening when the rotated member is squeezed to overcome a locked position of a lock or detent element and rotated about a central axis as it is pressed down towards the planar member surface, and retracts back to a start position automatically when released.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.