Apparatus and control method for rotating webbing guide of seat belt for vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Autoliv Development AB
InventorsWoo Chul Park, Hyun Jeong You, Dong Sub Lee
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Abstract
An apparatus for rotating a webbing guide of a seat belt for a vehicle may include a drive unit for moving a cable connected at one end thereof by controlling driving of a motor in response to an actuating signal or a stop signal, the webbing guide connected to the other end of the cable, and hingedly rotated to a first direction of a vehicular body as the cable moves in a second direction, and a return unit provided on the webbing guide, and providing an elastic force to the webbing guide so that the webbing guide hingedly rotated to the first direction of the vehicular body returns to the second direction of the vehicular body when the motor stops driving.
Claims13
An apparatus for rotating a webbing guide of a seat belt for a vehicle comprising:
- a drive unit for moving a cable connected at one end thereof by controlling driving of a motor in response to an actuating signal or a stop signal;
- the webbing guide connected to the other end of the cable, and hingedly rotated to a first direction of a vehicular body as the cable moves in a second direction;
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- a return unit provided on the webbing guide, and providing an elastic force to the webbing guide so that the webbing guide hingedly rotated to the first direction of the vehicular body returns to the second direction of the vehicular body when the motor stops driving.
A control method for rotating a webbing guide of a seat belt for a vehicle comprising:
- a door opening step of hingedly rotating the webbing guide to a rear portion of a vehicular body when a door is open and thus an actuating signal is detected;
- a door closing step of rotating and restoring the webbing guide to a front portion of the vehicular body when the door is closed and thus a stop signal is detected;
- a seat-belt fastening step of hingedly rotating the webbing guide to the rear portion of the vehicular body when the seat belt is fastened to the buckle and thus the actuating signal is detected;
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- a seat-belt releasing step of rotating and restoring the webbing guide to the front portion of the vehicular body when the seat belt is released from the buckle and thus the stop signal is detected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.