Buckle device
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
InventorsTetsushi Muromachi, Nao Sasaki
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Abstract
Foreign objects that have entered inside an insertion body are suppressed from reaching a detector side. In a buckle device, when a tongue plate is attached, an ejector slides downwards inside a buckle body, opening a through hole in a partitioning wall of a lower cover at the upper side. A main body portion of a slider member of a buckle switch is inserted into the through hole, closing off a portion of the through hole that has been opened by the ejector. Hence it is suppressed that foreign objects discharged through an insertion through hole in the buckle body to outside the buckle body pass through the through hole and reach the buckle switch side further than the partitioning wall.
Claims13
A buckle device comprising:
- an insertion body that is installed in a vehicle, a tongue provided at a belt installed in the vehicle being inserted into an inside portion of the insertion body whereby the belt is applied on a vehicle occupant;
- a moving member that is provided inside the insertion body, the moving member being moved according to insertion of the tongue inside the insertion body;
- a detector that is provided inside the insertion body and that includes a communication member communicating with the moving member, the communication member being moved according to movement of the moving member, and the detector detecting insertion of the tongue inside the insertion body by movement of the communication member;
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- a partitioning section that is provided inside the insertion body to partition between a moving member side and a detector side of the insertion body and that includes a through hole for communication between the moving member and the communication member, the communication member closing a portion of the through hole which portion is opened by the movement of the moving member,
- wherein when the tongue is not inserted into the inside portion of the insertion body, the through hole of the partitioning section is closed by the moving member, and
- wherein when the tongue is inserted into the inside portion of the insertion body, the closed portion of the through hole opened by movement of the moving member is closed by the communication member due to the communication member being moved by movement of the moving member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.