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US 8,783,782 B2Granted
Safety belt for a vehicle
OwnerNam-Young Parkinventor
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Abstract
A safety belt for a vehicle which can be worn in a manner of wearing suspenders to prevent a concentration of pressure to a part of the body of a seat occupant, and to uniformly distribute impact to thereby safely protect the seat occupant even upon the occurrence of an emergency during travel. To accomplish the above-described object, the safety belt for a vehicle according to the present invention comprises a pair of belts spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction on the front surface of a seatback and a connection unit for interconnecting the pair of belts.
Claims17
A safety belt for a vehicle, comprising:
- a pair of retractors provided in a rear surface of a seat back;
- a pair of belts extracting from the respective retractors and extending on a front surface of the seat back in a vertical direction;
- and
- a fastening unit for fastening the pair of belts to each other,
- wherein the fastening unit comprises:
- a tongue plate provided on either of the pair of belts;
- and
- a buckle provided on a remaining one of the pair of belts at a position corresponding to the tongue plate so that the tongue plate is removably fastened to the buckle,
- wherein the buckle comprises a connection member disposed on a first end of the buckle opposite to a second end thereof to which the tongue plate is fastened, the connection member having:
- a second insert slot into which the corresponding belt is inserted;
- and
- a second twist prevention slot into which the belt is inserted, the second twist prevention slot being disposed at a position adjacent to the second insert slot and at a slant with respect to the second insert slot to prevent the belt from being twisted,
- wherein an open recess is formed in the first end of the buckle in such a way that the first end of the buckle is open, wherein seating depressions corresponding to each other are formed in respective inner sidewalls of the open recess, and a through hole is formed in each of the seating depressions,
- a cover member is provided on the buckle to cover the seating depression, the cover member being hinged at a first end thereof to the buckle, with a coupling hole formed in a second end of the cover member, and
- a release pin is inserted into the through holes of the open recess via the coupling hole of the cover member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.