Device for promtping use of vehicle seatbelts
AssigneeOR-ROT-TEK Ltd.
InventorIsrael Orbach
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Abstract
A device for prompting the use of a vehicle seatbelt. The device includes a sensor and an alarm. The sensor is attached to the seatbelt so that it assumes a first angular position when the seatbelt is in an inoperative position and a second angular position when the seatbelt is in an operative position. The sensor includes a motion sensor responsive to motion of the vehicle when the sensor is in the first angular position. The sensor generates a signal indicative of motion of the vehicle occurring while the sensor is in the first position. The alarm is responsive to the signal and generate an alarm to prompt use of the seatbelt.
Claims5
A device for prompting use of a vehicle seatbelt, the seatbelt being deployable between from an inoperative position to an operative position, the device comprising:
- (a) a sensor unit attachable to the seatbelt so that said sensor unit assumes a first angular position when the seatbelt is in the inoperative position and a second angular position when the seatbelt is in the operative position, said sensor including a motion sensor responsive to motion of the vehicle at least when said sensor unit is in said first angular position, said sensor unit generating a signal indicative of motion of the vehicle occurring while said sensor unit is in said first angular position;
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- (b) an alarm unit associated with said sensor unit, said alarm unit being responsive to said signal to generate an alarm to prompt use of the seatbelt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.