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US 4,050,717 AGranted
Seat belt system
AssigneesToyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nippon Denso Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
InventorsMakoto Yamada, Shiro Sasaki, Shigenori Kanazawa, Yoshihiro Hayashi
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Abstract
A lap belt take-up shaft for a seat belt retractor is arranged horizontally and substantially orthogonally to the traveling direction of a vehicle, whereby damage to the lap belt due to the drawing-out and rolling-in thereof is prevented and whereby a Vehicle Inertia Sensitive type emergency engagement device can be installed so as to demonstrate its function perfectly.
Claims1
A seat belt system comprising:
- a lap belt;
- a lap belt take-up device, said device including a vehicular speed-sensing type emergency lock retractor having a belt winding shaft mounted on a car body frame member horizontally and substantially orthogonal to the traveling direction of the vehicle, one end of said lap belt being connected to said shaft;
- a shoulder belt;
- a shoulder belt take-up device, this device including a vehicular speed-sensing type emergency lock retractor having a belt winding shaft mounted on a car body frame member horizontally and substantially in parallel with the traveling direction of the vehicle, one end of said shoulder belt being connected to said shaft of said shoulder belt take-up device;
- a guide ring, which is attached to a car body frame member in the vicinity of an outer shoulder of an occupant and through which said shoulder belt is inserted;
- a tongue plate, to which the other end of said lap belt is connected and the other end of said shoulder belt is also connected through said guide ring and which is disengageably engaged with a buckle member anchored to a car body frame member on a side opposite to the retractors with respect to a seat;
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- a retractor fixing bracket, which is substantially L-shaped, said lap belt and shoulder belt take-up devices being secured to respective arms of the L-shape and the bracket being secured to a car body frame member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.