Vehicle seatbelt device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMitsuyoshi OHNO
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Abstract
A vehicle seatbelt device includes: a three-point seatbelt, a tongue having a long hole through which an intermediate portion of the seatbelt is inserted, a buckle that has a buckle main body at which the tongue is anchored and a stay that extends from the buckle main body toward a vehicle lower side and is connected to the vehicle seat, a forward tilting mechanism that tilts the stay toward a seat front side at a time of a vehicle collision or at a time a vehicle collision is predicted, and a shoulder pretensioner that pulls in a shoulder belt of the seatbelt at a time of a vehicle collision, wherein a lower end portion of the buckle main body and an upper end portion of the stay are connected rotatably around an axis along a seat transverse direction.
Claims10
A vehicle seatbelt device, comprising:
- a three-point seatbelt that restrains a vehicle occupant seated in a vehicle seat;
- a tongue having a long hole through which an intermediate portion of the seatbelt is inserted;
- a buckle that is disposed at a side of the vehicle seat, and that has a buckle main body at which the tongue is anchored and a stay that extends from the buckle main body toward a vehicle lower side and is connected to the vehicle seat or to a vehicle body;
- a forward tilting mechanism that tilts the stay toward a seat front side at a time of a vehicle collision or at a time a vehicle collision is predicted;
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- a shoulder pretensioner that pulls in a shoulder belt of the seatbelt toward an opposite side from the tongue at a time of a vehicle collision,
- wherein a lower end portion of the buckle main body and an upper end portion of the stay are connected rotatably around an axis along a seat transverse direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.