Airbelt system

• US 7,748,735 B2
• Filed: 11/13/2006
• Issued: 07/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Takata Corporation (Ningbo Junsheng Investment Group Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Takata Corporation (Ningbo Junsheng Investment Group Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Itoga, Yasuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Dickson; Paul N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Coker; Robert A
• Application Number:
  US11/992,412
• Publication Number:
  US 20090243262A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,331 Days
• Field of Search: 280/728.2, 280/730.1, 280/733, 280/743.1, 280/801.1
• US Class Current: 280/733
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/2612 Gas guiding means, e.g. ducts
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/18 the inflatable member formed as a belt or harness or combined with a belt or harness arrangement
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/26 secured to the seat

Abstract

There is provided an airbelt system in which an inflator and an anchor are mounted to the seat base without using a flexible pipe and with a relatively simple structure. An anchor for connecting the webbing of the airbelt is rotatably supported on the outer surface of a side plate of a base frame of the seat with a plurality of arcshaped long holes and step bolts passed through the long holes. An inflator is disposed inside the side plate. The gas port of the inflator is substantially coaxial with the rotation axis center of the anchor.

Claims

1. An airbelt system comprising:

an anchor mounted to a side plate of a seat base of a vehicle seat in such a manner as to be rotatable about a rotation axis that extends in a direction across the width of the seat;

an airbelt connected to the anchor; and

an inflator for inflating the airbelt;

wherein

the anchor has a plate-like member opposed to an outer surface of the side plate of the seat base, the plate-like member having arc-shaped long holes extending circumferentially about a rotation axis center;

the anchor is supported by support members passed through the long holes in such a manner as to be rotatable about the rotation axis center with respect to the side plate; and

the inflator is disposed on an inner side of the side plate in such a manner that a gas port of the inflator is coaxial with the rotation axis center.

2. The airbelt system according to claim 1, wherein the long holes are disposed in radially equal positions with respect to the rotation axis center.

3. The airbelt system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a retainer retaining the inflator disposed on the inner side of the side plate;

wherein

the retainer and the anchor are mounted to the sideplate with the support members passed through the long holes and the side plate.

4. The airbelt system according to claim 3, wherein:

the inflator is substantially columnar in shape;

the retainer has a cylindrical part accommodating the inflator and a flange connected to the cylindrical part; and

the flange is opposed to the inner surface of the side plate in such a manner that the inflator is coaxial with the rotation axis center, the flange being supported to the side plate by the support members.

5. The airbelt system according to claim 4, wherein:

the gas port of the inflator is disposed at the end of the inflator adjacent to the side plate; and

a gas pipe communicating the gas port with the airbelt is disposed through the side plate.

6. The airbelt system according to claim 5, wherein the gas pipe is a rigid or semirigid pipe.

7. The airbelt system according to claim 6, wherein the gas pipe is made of metal or hard synthetic resin.

8. The airbelt system according to claim 6, wherein the gas pipe is bent substantially in L-shape.

9. The airbelt system according to claim 6, wherein one end of the gas pipe is rotatably connected to the gas port of the inflator, and the other end of the gas pipe is connected to the airbelt.