Automatically fastening seatbelt assembly

Details Automatically fastening seatbelt assembly Automatically fastening seatbelt assembly

1985-12-03

1987-07-21

Love, John J.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Attachment

280808, B60R 2100

Patent

active

046813462

ABSTRACT:
An adjusting mechanism is provided for an automatically fastening seatbelt assembly which causes an occupant of a vehicle to be automatically held to a seat in the vehicle by restraining webbing after the occupant is positioned in the seat in the vehicle. The seatbelt assembly includes a guide rail, a slider which is displaceable along the guide rail and a restraining webbing which is fixed to the slider at one end thereof by an anchor plate. The adjusting mechanism allows adjustment of the position of an anchor plate in relation to the slider. The anchor plate is mounted pivotally to the slider by an anchor pin and a spring. The spring is located between the anchor plate and the slider and is fixed to either the anchor plate or the slider. Either the slider or the anchor plate (whichever the spring is not fixed to) has a plurality of adjusting holes. An engagement member on the spring selectively engages the plurality of adjusting holes. This engagement prevents pivotal movement of the anchor plate about the anchor pin, so that the anchor plate can be fixed at suitable positions to fit the restraining webbing to various size occupants. Furthermore, either the slider or the anchor plate includes block members which prevent the anchor plate from pivoting beyond the suitable positions for restraining occupants by the restraining webbing.

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patent: 4473243 (1984-09-01), Ogawa
patent: 4560187 (1985-12-01), Yoshitsugu

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