Automatic seat belt device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHisashi Ogawa
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Abstract
An automatic seat belt device installed in each seat of a motor vehicle and applied automatically to an occupant of the seat upon closing of an automotive door and adapted to confine the occupant to a back rest of a front seat in a vehicle. This seat belt device is comprised of an outer belt connected in V shape to upper and lower anchors of the door, and an inner belt connected through a ring joint to the outer belt. At the outer belt weaving between the ring joint on the outer belt and the lower anchor attached to the lower portion of the door is mounted a stopper adapted to prevent the ring joint from sliding down along the outer belt. Thus, the device can introduce the seat belt to a relatively high position where it does not interfere with the occupant's riding space in the vehicle when the door is opened.
Claims2
An automatic seat belt device comprising:
- an upper anchor and a lower anchor secured to the upper and lower portions of an automotive door;
- an outer belt connected at upper and lower ends thereof to said upper and lower anchors, respectively;
- an inner belt connected at one end thereof through a ring joint to said outer belt and at the other end thereof to a retractor provided at the center of an automotive floor to extend from the retractor;
- an outer belt weaving provided between the ring joint on said outer belt and said lower anchor attached to the lower portion of the door;
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- a stopper secured to said outer belt weaving for preventing the ring joint from sliding down along said outer belt and located in such a range that the ring joint confines an occupant at his front abdominal portion when the seat belt of the three end type is mounted on the occupant and that the ring joint is retained sufficiently at the upper portion of said outer belt, wherein said stopper comprises an upper piece and a lower piece disposed at the upper and lower side surfaces of said outer belt weaving along said outer belt weaving for gripping said outer belt weaving therebetween, said upper and lower pieces secured at both side ends thereof to each other, and said stopper is elevationally swelled at said pieces upward and downward from the surface of said outer belt weaving thereby preventing the ring joint from sliding down along said outer belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.