Seatbelt apparatus for vehicle
First Claim
1. A seatbelt apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
- a driver seatbelt provided about a driver seat;
a passenger seatbelt provided about another passenger'"'"'s seat except the driver seat;
a driver-seatbelt driving mechanism for controlling at least one of a belt tension of the driver seatbelt and a rewind timing of rewinding of the driver seatbelt;
a passenger-seatbelt driving mechanism for controlling at least one of a belt tension of the passenger seatbelt and a rewind timing of rewinding of the passenger seatbelt;
a driving-condition sensing unit for detecting the driving condition of the vehicle; and
a control unit connected with all of the driver-seatbelt driving mechanism, the passenger-seatbelt driving mechanism and the driving-condition sensing unit, for controlling the operations of the driver-seatbelt driving mechanism and the passenger-seatbelt driving mechanism, in terms of at least one of respective belt tensions and respective rewind timings of the driver seatbelt and the passenger seatbelt, the control unit adapted to control the driver-seatbelt driving mechanism and the passenger-seatbelt driving mechanism so that holding conditions of the driver seat belt and the passenger seat belt are different from each other.
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Abstract
A seatbelt apparatus is provided to apply a proper restrictive feeling on passengers, corresponding to traveling condition of a vehicle. In the seatbelt apparatus, on receipt of detection signals from a fore-and-aft acceleration sensor 97 and a left-and-right acceleration sensor 99, a controller 101 controls respective tensions of seatbelts for driver seat and assistant driver'"'"'s seat individually. Owing to the controller 101, it is established at a vehicle'"'"'s breaking to make a seatbelt tension of the assistant driver'"'"'s seat larger than that of the driver seat. When the vehicle is turning, it is carried out to make a seatbelt tension of the driver seat larger than that of the assistant driver'"'"'s seat.
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12 Claims
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1. A seatbelt apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
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a driver seatbelt provided about a driver seat;
a passenger seatbelt provided about another passenger'"'"'s seat except the driver seat;
a driver-seatbelt driving mechanism for controlling at least one of a belt tension of the driver seatbelt and a rewind timing of rewinding of the driver seatbelt;
a passenger-seatbelt driving mechanism for controlling at least one of a belt tension of the passenger seatbelt and a rewind timing of rewinding of the passenger seatbelt;
a driving-condition sensing unit for detecting the driving condition of the vehicle; and
a control unit connected with all of the driver-seatbelt driving mechanism, the passenger-seatbelt driving mechanism and the driving-condition sensing unit, for controlling the operations of the driver-seatbelt driving mechanism and the passenger-seatbelt driving mechanism, in terms of at least one of respective belt tensions and respective rewind timings of the driver seatbelt and the passenger seatbelt, the control unit adapted to control the driver-seatbelt driving mechanism and the passenger-seatbelt driving mechanism so that holding conditions of the driver seat belt and the passenger seat belt are different from each other. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A seatbelt apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
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a driver seatbelt provided about a driver seat;
a passenger seatbelt provided about another passenger'"'"'s seat except the driver seat;
driving-condition sensing means for detecting the driving condition of the vehicle; and
control means for controlling respective belt tensions and respective rewind timings of the driver seatbelt and the passenger seatbelt in a manner that, at a vehicle'"'"'s breaking, the belt tension of the passenger seatbelt becomes larger than the belt tension of the driver seatbelt and the rewind timing of the passenger seatbelt is hastened in comparison with the rewind timing of the driver seatbelt and that, at a vehicle'"'"'s turning, the belt tension of the driver seatbelt becomes larger than the belt tension of the passenger seatbelt and the rewind timing of the driver seatbelt is hastened in comparison with the rewind timing of the passenger seatbelt.
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12. A seatbelt control method for a vehicle, comprising:
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disposing a driver seatbelt about a driver seat, a passenger seatbelt about another passenger'"'"'s seat except the driver seat, and a driving-condition sensing unit for detecting the driving condition of the vehicle; and
controlling respective belt tensions and respective rewind timings of the driver seatbelt and the passenger seatbelt in a manner that, at a vehicle'"'"'s breaking, the belt tension of the passenger seatbelt becomes larger than the belt tension of the driver seatbelt and the rewind timing of the passenger seatbelt is hastened in comparison with the rewind timing of the driver seatbelt and that, at a vehicle'"'"'s turning, the belt tension of the driver seatbelt becomes larger than the belt tension of the passenger seatbelt and the rewind timing of the driver seatbelt is hastened in comparison with the rewind timing of the passenger seatbelt, so that holding conditions of the driver seat belt and the passenger seat belt are different from each other.
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