Land vehicles – Wheeled – Attachment
Patent
1994-04-01
1995-09-26
Culbreth, Eric D.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Attachment
280808, 297469, 297473, B60R 2206
Patent
active
054529182
ABSTRACT:
Motorized bi-level safety belts having a lap belt and a shoulder belt with a base end of each anchored to a separate retractor at an inside portion of a vehicle seat. Moveable ends of the lap belt and shoulder belt are attachable to a moveable base that is separable into a shoulder level and a seat level. The moveable base travels in a rail from a body-release mode in a position at a front of a vehicle door to a body-restraint mode in which the moveable base is separable into a shoulder level and a seat level at the back of the door. The rail is attached to a frame of the door. Curved accurately shaped, rigid areas of the belts are provided to prevent contact of a lap belt and a shoulder belt with a body of an individual on a vehicle seat and to prevent contact of the safety belts with a steering wheel of a car in transit between body-release and body-restraint modes. Wide, flexibly rigid, soft-edged and selectively arcuate sections of the belts are optionally attached to or attachable to portions of the safety belts. The curved arcuately shaped, rigid areas of the belts which are immediately near the rail and anchor end are curved and pointed toward the front of the vehicle while in the rest position. Passenger-side features are mirror images of drive-side features except for optional rigid areas of the belts related to avoiding contact of the lap belt and shoulder belt with a steering wheel on the driver's side, however, the curved accurately shaped, rigid areas of the belts may still be desired to prevent contact of the belts with the occupant of either seat.
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Culbreth Eric D.
Hinkle James A.
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