VEHICLE WEBBING GUIDE STRUCTURE

• US 20160001738A1
• Filed: 06/18/2015
• Published: 01/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Arai, Shunsuke
• Granted Patent: US 9,688,236 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2022/029 Belt storage; Devices or systems for controlling winding up of unused seat belt
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2022/1818 Belt guides
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/023 Three-point seat belt systems comprising two side lower and one side upper anchoring devices B60R22/022, B60R22/03 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/26 secured to the seat

Abstract

A vehicle body includes a pillar member disposed on an outer side of a cabin in a vehicle width direction and a side wall member located closer to inside in the vehicle width direction than the pillar member and coupled to the pillar member. The guide member for guiding drawing of a webbing includes a front edge fixing portion coupled to the pillar member, a rear edge fixing portion coupled to the side wall member, and a guide body whose two ends are coupled to the front and rear edge fixing portions and which forms a webbing drawing opening together with the pillar member and the side wall member. The front and rear edge fixing portions are separated from each other with an interval greater than or equal to a width of the webbing and coupled to the pillar member and the side wall member.

Claims

1. A vehicle webbing guide structure attached to a vehicle body, comprising:

a pillar member of the vehicle disposed on an outer side of a cabin in a vehicle width direction;

a side wall member coupled to the pillar member and located closer an inner side of the cabin in the vehicle width direction than the pillar member; and

a guide member supported by the pillar member and the side wall member and configured to guide a webbing of a seatbelt unit, the guide member comprising;

a front edge fixing portion coupled to the pillar member,

a rear edge fixing portion coupled to the side wall member, and

a guide body having a front end and a rear end respectively coupled to the front edge fixing portion and the rear edge fixing portion and extending between the front end and the rear end such that the guide body, together with the pillar member and the side wall member, forms an opening through which the webbing drawn upward from a webbing retractor is guided downward by the guide body,

wherein the front edge fixing portion and the rear edge fixing portion are located away from each other by a distance greater than or equal to a width of the webbing.

2. The vehicle webbing guide structure of claim 1, wherein

the guide body comprises,

a webbing guide portion that substantially linearly extends and guides the webbing by slidably supporting the webbing, and

a bent portion that extends from the webbing guide portion while bending toward one of the front and rear ends of the guide body such that the guide member at least in part projects relative to a line connecting the front end and the rear end.

3. The vehicle webbing guide structure of claim 2, wherein

the guide member is shaped substantially symmetrically in its entirety with respect to a lateral line perpendicular to the vehicle width direction in a state where the guide member is attached to the vehicle body.

4. The vehicle webbing guide structure of claim 1, wherein

the guide body comprises,

a webbing guide portion that substantially linearly extends and guides the webbing by slidably supporting the webbing,

a first bent portion that extends from the webbing guide portion while bending toward the front end of the guide body such that the guide member at least in part projects relative to a line connecting the front end and the rear end, and

a second bent portion that extends from the webbing guide portion while bending toward the rear end of the guide body such that the guide member at least in part projects relative to the line connecting the front end and the rear end, and

a first bend angle of the first bent portion with respect to the webbing guide portion differs from a second bend angle of the second bent portion with respect to the webbing guide portion.

5. The vehicle webbing guide structure of claim 2, further comprising fastening members that fix the front edge fixing portion and the rear edge fixing portion to the pillar member and the side wall member, relatively, wherein

the fastening members extend substantially along a direction in which the webbing guide portion extends.

6. The vehicle webbing guide structure of claim 5, wherein

at least one of the fastening members has an oval hole into which an insertion member is to be inserted for said fixing.