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US 6,502,861 B2Granted
Seat belt guide
AssigneeBreed Automotive Technology, Inc.
InventorMartin Specht
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Abstract
A seat belt guide has a metallic body for mounting on a vehicle structure. A flexing bar has a low-friction belt webbing guide face around which webbing of a seat belt is guided. The flexing bar and two flexing bar carriers define a webbing guide aperture. A belt webbing guide face is formed by a sliding shell that is clipped on with an interlocking fit in the region of the flexing bar and the flexing bar carriers.
Claims11
A seat belt guide comprising
- a bearing point for the pivotal mounting of a anchoring plate on a vehicle structure,
- a flexing bar for guiding a belt webbing, two flexing bar carriers connect the flexing bar and anchoring plate and cooperate with the flexing bar and the anchoring plate to define a webbing guide aperture, two transition points laterally border the belt webbing guide aperture, and
- a sliding shell having a substantially uniform wall thickness is made of low-friction material for receiving forces occurring during normal operation is attached with an interlocking fit on the belt webbing guide face of the flexing bar and over the two transition points, the sliding shell is attached to the flexing bar in a manner that results in the sliding shell being released upon deformation of the flexing bar, the sliding shell has a low friction belt webbing guide face in the belt webbing guide aperture, wherein the sliding shell has a wall thickness of about 0.4 mm to 0.6 mm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.