Mounting arrangement for through anchor

• US 4,500,115 A
• Filed: 11/24/1982
• Issued: 02/19/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/1981
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nippon Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha (NSK Limited)
• Original Assignee: Nsk-Warner Kabushiki Kaisha (BorgWarner Incorporated)
• Inventors: Ono, Katsuyasu
• Primary Examiner(s): Bertsch, Richard A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rice, Kenneth R.
• Application Number:
  US06/444,503
• Time in Patent Office: 818 Days
• Field of Search: 280/801, 280/804, 280/808, 280/807, 297/468, 297/473, 297/483, 297/486
• US Class Current: 280/801.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/203 the locking means being movably mounted on the slider

Abstract

A mounting arrangement for a through anchor for passing an automobile seat belt webbing through characterized in that an adjustable anchor provided with a freely-rotating through anchor is adapted to slide up and down on an adjusting base, freely-rotating adjustable anchor latch pieces provided with fastening legs and biased by a return spring are fixed on the adjustable anchor, and the fastening legs are fastened with fastening means provided on the adjusting base so as to hold the adjustable anchor at a set position.

Claims

1. A device adapted to mount, on an automobile body, a through-anchor which permits the webbing of an automobile seat belt to extend therethrough, said device comprising:

an adjustable anchor carrying the through-anchor fixedly secured thereon;

a base to be fixedly mounted on the automobile body and equipped with a plurality of interlocking means which are arranged in pairs along two mutually-parallel lines with a predetermined interval between each two adjacent interlocking means on each of the lines;

a pair of latch pieces provided with the adjustable anchor in such a way that the latch pieces are displaceable between engagement positions where the latch pieces are engaged with the interlocking means in any of the pairs and non-engagement positions where the latch pieces are not engaged with any of the interlocking means; and

biasing means adapted to bias the latch pieces toward the engagement position.

2. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the latch pieces defines at one end thereof an engagement portion which is engageable with any one of the interlocking means on its corresponding line.

3. A device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the other end of the latch piece is formed into a manipulating portion operable by a finger.

4. A device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the ltch pieces are shifted from the engagement position to the non-engagement position when their respective manipulating portions are operated in directions decreasing the distance therebetween.

5. A device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the manipulating portions of the latch pieces are operated in directions substantially perpendicular to the displacement directions of the adjustable anchor.

6. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the latch pieces are turnably attached to the adjustable anchor, substantially, at their respective centers of gravity.

7. A device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the latch pieces are attached to the adjustable anchor in such a way that they intersect substantially at their respective centers of gravity.

8. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base comprises a bottom plate, side plates and top plate.

9. A device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the plurality of interlocking means are openings formed through the side plates.

10. A device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the plurality of interlocking means are formed at the top plate.

11. A device adapted to mount a through-anchor which permits the webbing of an automobile seat belt to extend therethrough, said device comprising:

a base including side plates which respectively define openings with a predetermined interval;

an adjustable anchor provided slidably up and down on the base and carrying the through-anchor secured rotatably thereon by means of a pin; and

a pair of latch pieces each having an engagement portion at one end thereof and biased outwardly at their respective engagement portions by means of a return spring and turnably provided on the adjustable anchor by means of the pin, thereby allowing the insertion of the engagement portions of the latch pieces into a desired pair of the openings so as to lock the adjustable anchor at a desired position.