Illuminated seat belt buckle
AssigneeVolkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
InventorWitali EFFENBERGER
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Abstract
An illuminated seat belt buckle for a seat belt. The seat belt buckle has a buckle housing, a locking mechanism, an insertion slot for a belt latch of the seat belt, an actuating button for release purposes, and an illuminating device which has at least one light source and is arranged in the seat belt buckle. The buckle housing has a light-permeable and annularly closed light outlet opening from which the coupled-in light provided by the illuminating device emerges. The light outlet opening surrounds the actuating button and/or the insertion slot in an encircling manner.
Claims16
An illuminated seat belt buckle for a seat belt, the illuminated seat belt buckle comprising:
- a buckle housing;
- a locking mechanism;
- an insertion slot for a belt latch of the seat belt;
- an actuating button for releasing the illuminated seat belt buckle;
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- an illuminating device that has at least one light source and is arranged in the seat belt buckle,
- wherein the buckle housing has a light-permeable and annularly closed light outlet opening from which the coupled-in light provided by the illuminating device emerges and which circumferentially surrounds the actuating button and/or the insertion slot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.