GUIDE ANCHOR FOR SEAT BELT OF VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME

• US 20080018164A1
• Filed: 08/06/2007
• Published: 01/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Autoliv AB (Autoliv Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Delphi Corporation (BorgWarner Incorporated)
• Inventors: YOU, Byoung-Gae
• Granted Patent: US 7,600,786 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 297/481
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2022/1818 Belt guides
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/24 secured to the side, door, or roof of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/4086 Looped strap

Abstract

A guide anchor for a seat belt, and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The guide anchor comprises a guide plate having a latching hole and a slide guide hole formed therein, a guide piece engaged with a lower circumference of the slide guide hole, and a first molded part for coupling the guide plate and the guide piece. The guide piece comprises a cover, and a second molded part injected into a lower surface of the cover. The second molded part has a recess formed in a longitudinal direction at a lower surface. The cover has cover eaves extending from a lower portion.

Claims

1-8. -8. (canceled)

9. A guide anchor for a seat belt of a vehicle, the guide anchor comprising a guide plate having a latching hole and a slide guide hole formed therein, a guide piece engaged with a lower circumference of the slide guide hole, and a first molded part for coupling the guide plate and the guide piece, wherein the guide piece comprises a cover, and a second molded part formed under a lower surface of the cover, wherein the second molded part has a recess formed in a longitudinal direction at a lower surface such that the recess is fitted onto the guide plate and wherein the cover is formed with at least two frictional openings, such that the second molded part is exposed through the frictional openings.

10. The guide anchor according to claim 9, wherein the cover has a symmetrical shape, and the second molded part is finished at a lower surface of the cover.

11. The guide anchor according to claim 9, wherein side surfaces of the cover have different heights, so that the second molded part is finished in an exposed state at a shorter side of the cover while being finished at a lower surface of a longer side of the cover.

12. The guide anchor according to claims 9, wherein the frictional openings of the cover are slanted to a vertical center line.

13. The guide anchor according to claims 9, wherein the frictional openings of the cover have a rounded circumferential surface.

14. The guide anchor according to claims 9, wherein the frictional openings of the cover have a downwardly bent circumference.

15. The guide anchor according to claims 9, wherein protrusions are formed on a surface of the second molded part exposed through the frictional openings of the cover.

16. The guide anchor according to claim 15, wherein the protrusions are extended along a length of the frictional openings of the cover.

17. The guide anchor according to claim 9, wherein protrusions are formed on either a rear or front surface of the guide plate, and the recess of the second molded part of the guide piece is formed at both sides with fitting grooves to which the protrusions are fitted.

18-25. -25. (canceled)