Buckle device

• US 10,654,441 B2
• Filed: 08/16/2017
• Issued: 05/19/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Inventors: Tsujimoto, Masafumi, Sasaguchi, Taku
• Primary Examiner(s): Verley, Nicole T
• Application Number:
  US15/678,274
• Publication Number:
  US 20180056931A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,007 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2022/1806 for buckles
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2022/4816 for sensing locking of buckle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/03 Means for presenting the belt or part thereof to the wearer , e.g. foot-operated
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/18 Anchoring devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/20 adjustable in position, e.g. in height
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/201 with the belt anchor connected to a slider movable in a vehicle-mounted track for passive restraint systems B60R22/06
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/26 secured to the seat
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/48 Control systems, alarms, or interlock systems, for the correct application of the belt or harness

Abstract

A buckle device including: a buckle that is configured to engage with a tongue of a seatbelt device, a cover member that includes a first member and a second member for assembly together, and at which the buckle is provided; an elongated member that is anchored to the first member at a length direction leading end portion of the elongated member, and a retention section that is provided at the first member, and that is configured to engage a portion of the elongated member that is further toward a length direction base end side of the elongated member than the length direction leading end portion.

Claims

1. A buckle device comprising:

a buckle that is configured to engage with a tongue of a seatbelt device;

a cover member that includes a first member and a second member for assembly together in tandem and aligned in a longitudinal direction thereof, with an elongated member interposed therebetween, and at which the buckle is provided;

the elongated member is being anchored to the first member at a length direction leading end portion of the elongated member; and

a retention section that is provided at the first member, and that is configured to engage a portion of the elongated member that is further toward a length direction base end side of the elongated member than the length direction leading end portion.

2. The buckle device of claim 1, wherein, in a case of retaining the elongated member, the retention section is configured to be elastically deformed, an elastic deformation of the retention section being suppressed by the second member in a state in which the first member and the second member are assembled together.

3. The buckle device of claim 1, wherein the length direction base end side of the elongated member is configured to extend from a first member side to a second member side, and the retention section is provided at an end portion on the second member side of the first member in a state in which the first member and the second member are assembled together.

4. The buckle device of claim 1, wherein the retention section includes:

a first retention portion that is configured to be engaged with the elongated member from one side in a direction intersecting a length direction of the elongated member and to suppress displacement of the elongated member toward the one side; and

a second retention portion that is offset toward a length direction side of the elongated member with respect to the first retention portion, and that is configured to be engaged with the elongated member from another side in the direction intersecting the length direction of the elongated member and to suppress displacement of the elongated member toward the other side.

5. The buckle device of claim 1, wherein the retention section includes:

a first retention portion that is configured to be engaged with the elongated member from one side in a direction intersecting a length direction of the elongated member and to suppress displacement of the elongated member toward the one side;

a second retention portion that is configured to be engaged with the elongated member from another side in the direction intersecting the length direction of the elongated member and to suppress displacement of the elongated member toward the other side;

a first removal-suppression portion that is configured to extend from the first retention portion toward the other side in the direction intersecting the length direction of the elongated member and to suppress displacement of the elongated member in a direction in which the elongated member comes out from a gap between the first retention portion and the second retention portion; and

a second removal-suppression portion that is configured to extend from the second retention portion toward the one side in the direction intersecting the length direction of the elongated member further to a length direction side of the elongated member than the first removal-suppression portion and to suppress displacement of the elongated member in the direction in which the elongated member comes out from the gap between the first retention portion and the second retention portion.

6. The buckle device of claim 5, wherein, in a state in which the first member and the second member have been assembled together, an end portion of the second member on one length direction side of the cover member is disposed at another side of the second retention portion in a thickness direction of the cover member.

7. A buckle device comprising:

a buckle that is configured to engage with a tongue of a seatbelt device;

a cover member that includes a first member and a second member for assembly together, and at which the buckle is provided;

an elongated member that is anchored to the first member at a length direction leading end portion of the elongated member; and

a retention section that is provided at the first member, and that is configured to engage a portion of the elongated member that is further toward a length direction base end side of the elongated member than the length direction leading end portion, wherein the retention section includes;

a first retention portion that is configured to be engaged with the elongated member from one side in a direction intersecting a length direction of the elongated member and to suppress displacement of the elongated member toward the one side;

a second retention portion that is configured to be engaged with the elongated member from another side in the direction intersecting the length direction of the elongated member and to suppress displacement of the elongated member toward the other side;

a first removal-suppression portion that is configured to extend from the first retention portion toward the other side in the direction intersecting the length direction of the elongated member and to suppress displacement of the elongated member in a direction in which the elongated member comes out from a gap between the first retention portion and the second retention portion; and

a second removal-suppression portion that is configured to extend from the second retention portion toward the one side in the direction intersecting the length direction of the elongated member further to a length direction side of the elongated member than the first removal-suppression portion and to suppress displacement of the elongated member in the direction in which the elongated member comes out from the gap between the first retention portion and the second retention portion.