Pre-tensioner for seat belt of vehicles

• US 10,259,425 B2
• Filed: 07/27/2017
• Issued: 04/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Inventors: Lee, Inbum, Kwak, Dong Hyuk
• Primary Examiner(s): Frisby, Keith J
• Application Number:
  US15/662,132
• Publication Number:
  US 20180281746A1
• Time in Patent Office: 628 Days
• Field of Search: 280806, 297480
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0029 Floor, e.g. side sills, fire wall
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2022/1806 for buckles
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/1951 characterised by arrangements in vehicle or relative to seat belt
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/1952 Transmission of tensioning power by cable; Return motion locking means therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/1955 Linear actuators
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/24 secured to the side, door, or roof of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/40 responsive only to vehicle movement
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/42 having means for acting directly upon the belt, e.g. by clamping or friction not combined with the retractor B60R22/185

Abstract

A pre-tensioner for a safety belt of vehicles is provided. The pre-tensioner for a safety belt of a vehicle that is disposed in a side sill of the vehicle and that operates to pull the safety belt by pushing a piston into a tube by a high pressure gas of a gas generator using explosive power of gunpowder that is configured at one side of a bracket in a state in which the piston is connected to the safety belt through a wire within the tube including: internal and external weldnuts that are fixed to each one side of internal and external side surfaces of the side sill, wherein by penetrating the side sill in a vehicle width direction by forming a screw at an external circumference of both end portions of the tube, the both end portions are engaged with the internal and external weldnuts, respectively.

Claims

1. A pre-tensioner for a safety belt that is disposed in a side sill of a vehicle and that operates to pull the safety belt by pushing a piston into a tube by a high pressure gas of a gas generator using explosive power of gunpowder that is configured at one side of a bracket in a state in which the piston is connected to the safety belt through a wire within the tube, the pre-tensioner comprising:

internal and external weldnuts that are fixed to each one side of internal and external side surfaces of the side sill,

wherein by penetrating the side sill in a vehicle width direction by forming a screw at an external circumference of first and second end portions of the tube, the first and second end portions are engaged with the internal and external weldnuts, respectively.

2. The pre-tensioner of claim 1, wherein at an internal end portion of the tube, gear teeth are formed, and

wherein the pre-tensioner further includes an engaging gear that is rotatably disposed through a rotation guider at one side of the bracket to be engaged with the gear teeth.

3. The pre-tensioner of claim 1, wherein in the tube, an external diameter of an internal end portion in which the screw is formed is greater than an entire external diameter.

4. The pre-tensioner of claim 1, wherein an internal diameter of the internal weldnut is greater than that of the external weldnut.

5. The pre-tensioner of claim 1, wherein at the internal to a front end portion of the piston, a cone-shaped curved surface is formed, and a plurality of return prevention balls are interposed between a circumference of the curved surface and an internal circumference of the tube to suppress a return operation of the piston.

6. The pre-tensioner of claim 1, wherein sealing is inserted and disposed between an external circumference of a front end portion of the piston and the tube.

7. The pre-tensioner of claim 1, wherein in a state that the gas generator is fixed and disposed at one side of the bracket, a gas pipe is disposed to correspond to the front end portion of the piston.