Seat for a vehicle provided with a safety belt with fixation points embarked on the armature of the seat

• US 5,439,272 A
• Filed: 05/14/1993
• Issued: 08/08/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bertrand Faure Automobile
• Original Assignee: Bertrand Faure Automobile
• Inventors: Hallet, Michel, Degrenne, Freederic
• Primary Examiner(s): Dorner, Kenneth J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nelson, Jr., Milton
• Application Number:
  US08/061,840
• Time in Patent Office: 816 Days
• Field of Search: 297/464, 297/468, 297/473-480, 297/483, 280/801 R, 280/806-808, 280/801.1, 280/801.2
• US Class Current: 297/479
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2352 with external pawls
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/688 Particular seat belt attachment and guiding
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2022/1818 Belt guides
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/26 secured to the seat

Abstract

One end of the strap forming the safety belt is rigidly connected to a rear lower portion of the armature of the seating portion of the seat by a blockage mechanism. A shoulder keeper situated frontwardly with respect to the upper portion of the front face of the seat back provides for a sliding and guiding of a run of the safety belt passing above the passenger shoulder. An other end of the run of the safety belt is secured to an iron fitting fixed with one of the side flanges of the seating portion armature and forming a second fixation point. A keeper cooperating with a lock forms a third lower fixation point of the safety belt and is connected to the side flange opposite the second fixation point on the armature of the seating portion of the seat. The two side flanges receiving the fixed and mobile portions of the back seat inclination setting mechanisms with respect to the seating portion of the seat are placed in a position such that a pivoting point of these mechanisms is in a position which is in front of a normal pivoting point of these mechanisms by a certain distance.

Claims

1. In a vehicle seat provided with a safety belt having fixation points embarked on a seat armature, the improvement wherein:

one end of a strap that forms said safety belt is fixedly connected, to form a first fixation point, to a rear lower portion of an armature of a seating portion of said seat via a blockage mechanism;

a shoulder keeper disposed on a seat back forward of an upper portion of a front face of said seat back provides for a sliding and guiding of a run of said safety belt strap above a passenger'"'"'s shoulder;

another end of a further run of said safety belt strap is secured, to form a second fixation point, to a fitting that is fixed to side flange means on one side of said seating portion armature; and

a further keeper that is disposed on said safety belt strap between said shoulder keeper and said fitting and that cooperates, to form a third fixation point, with a lock that is connected to side flange means on an opposite side of said seating portion armature, whereby both of said side flange means receive and mobile portions of articulation means for adjusting the position of said seat back relative to said seating portion of said seat, wherein said blockage mechanism of said safety belt strap is disposed rearwardly of said seat back and comprises spaced-apart throughgoing tubes that are disposed in two essentially parallel vertical planes and in three parallel horizontal planes between which runs of said strap are defined, with the component of the forces of said runs being such as to create an antagonistic force that produces a torque which considerably reduces the torque exerted on said articulation means, and wherein said two side flange means that receive said portions of said articulation means provide a pivot axis for said articulation means for adjusting the position of said seat back relative to said seating portion of said seat, with said pivot axis being disposed forward of a conventional pivot axis for such articulation means at a rear end of a seating portion armature.

2. A vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein said pivot axis of said articulation means is disposed about 50 mm forward of a conventional pivot axis.

3. A vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein runs of said safety belt strap enter said blockage mechanism in a first plane and exit the same in a second, different plane.

4. A vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein said throughgoing tubes of said blockage mechanism are disposed such as to form the corners of an irregular triangle.