Seat belt position adjuster and seat belt device including the same

• US 20080030063A1
• Filed: 05/29/2007
• Published: 02/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Takata Corporation (Ningbo Junsheng Investment Group Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Takata Corporation (Ningbo Junsheng Investment Group Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Iwai, Masahiko, Nagayoshi, Yukio, Tabata, Yuki
• Application Number:
  US11/802,968
• Publication Number:
  US 20080030063A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 297/468
• 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 22/24 secured to the side, door, or roof of the vehicle

Abstract

A seat belt position adjuster includes a guide rail attached to a vehicle body and a slider slidably provided to the guide rail. The slider swingably supports a belt anchor that guides a seat belt. The slider includes a boss portion that supports the belt anchor, and slides with respect to the guide rail to adjust the position of the seat belt. The boss portion includes an inner diameter that is kept constant between a base portion and a leading end portion of the boss portion, and an outer diameter that is continuously reduced from the base portion toward a leading end of the boss portion.

Claims

1. A seat belt position adjuster comprising:

a guide rail attached to a vehicle body; and

a slider slidably attached to the guide rail for swingably supporting a belt anchor that guides a seat belt, the slider including a boss portion for supporting the belt anchor and sliding with respect to the guide rail to adjust a position of the seat belt;

wherein the boss portion comprises an inner diameter that is kept constant between a base portion and a leading end portion of the boss portion, and an outer diameter that is continuously reduced from the base portion toward the leading end of the boss portion.

2. The seat belt position adjuster according to claim 1, wherein the boss portion is integrally formed with the slider by a burring process.

3. A seat belt device comprising at least:

a seat belt;

a seat belt retractor configured to keep the seat belt withdrawably retracted in a normal state and preventing the seat belt from being withdrawn in an emergency;

a belt anchor to be attached to a vehicle body to guide the seat belt withdrawn from the seat belt retractor; and

a seat belt position adjuster for adjusting a position of the belt anchor, the seat belt position adjuster operable to adjust the position of the belt anchor to thereby adjust the position of the seat belt with respect to an occupant;

wherein the seat belt position adjuster is the seat belt position adjuster according to claim 1.

4. The seat belt device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a tongue slidably supported by the seat belt; and

a buckle fixed to a vehicle seat or a vehicle body, the buckle configured to be latched with the tongue.