US 6,637,825 B2Granted

Safety belt-reversing device on a motor vehicle seat

OwnerNorbert Janzinventor

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Abstract

A safety belt-reversing device on a vehicle seat, having a sheet metal body connected with a base construction of the seat. The sheet metal body comprises a surface on which the belt is running in the form of a saddle, and stiffening tabs connected on the face sides of the saddle, as well as foot elements projecting from the underside. A belt-guiding element, for example in the form of a bow, is arranged in the area of the ridge of the saddle above the surface on which the belt is running, for limiting a slot for the belt. The ridge area of the saddle is rounded in the direction in which the belt is running and, in the transverse direction thereto, has upwardly shaped ears. The foot elements in the form of sheet metal tabs are secured on a cross bar of the base construction of the seat so that the face-side tabs of the sheet metal body are spaced from the cross bar.

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Dependent claims

A safety belt-reversing device for a belt on a motor vehicle seat, the device comprising:

(a) a sheet metal body coupled to the base of the seat, said sheet metal body comprising:
(i) a saddle acting as a running surface, said saddle having a ridge, a belt inlet side, a belt outlet side, a lower section, and face sides;
(ii) a plurality of stiffening tabs coupled to said face sides of said saddle;
(iii) a plurality of foot elements formed as oppositely spaced sheet metal tabs;
and
(iv) a plurality of upwardly shaped ears extending up from said saddle, said ears for limiting an area on which the belt runs sideways;
(b) a belt guiding element arranged in a ridge of said saddle, above a surface on which the belt is running, and for limiting a slot for the belt;
and
(c) a horizontally aligned cross bar coupled on both sides to said foot elements wherein said cross bar is spaced apart from said plurality of stiffening tabs, and wherein said plurality of foot elements are designed so that they buckle away under the stresses occurring in a crash situation, and said sheet metal body sags down to a point where the stiffening tabs touch a top of said horizontally aligned cross bar.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.