Seat belt system in motor vehicles

• US 8,474,873 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2009
• Issued: 07/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Original Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Inventors: Moeker, Carsten, Grutzeck, Stefan
• Primary Examiner(s): Ilan, Ruth
• Application Number:
  US13/129,367
• Publication Number:
  US 20110291395A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,389 Days
• Field of Search: 280/801.1, 280/806, 280/808, 297/480
• US Class Current: 280/806
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0029 Floor, e.g. side sills, fire wall
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/1952 Transmission of tensioning power by cable; Return motion locking means therefor

Abstract

A seat belt system in motor vehicles includes a seat belt disposed at a front seat and a shoulder-belt portion and a lap-belt portion, which at its outer anchorage point, is retained in the area of a door sill of the motor vehicle on a belt tensioner that is connected to the lap-belt portion via a connecting device. The connecting device is disposed out of view below a door-sill molding.

Claims

1. A seat belt system for a motor vehicle, comprising:

a seat belt arranged at a front seat of the vehicle and including a shoulder-belt portion and a lap-belt portion retained, at an outer anchorage point, in an area of a door sill of the motor vehicle on a belt tensioner that is connected via a connecting device to the lap-belt portion;

wherein the connecting device is arranged out of view below a door-sill molding; and

wherein the connecting device includes a bayonet connection having a coupling part on a belt side and a coupling part on a belt-tensioner side.

2. The seat belt system according to claim 1, further comprising a rerouting part arranged out of view below the door-sill molding, and starting from the connecting device, the lap-belt portion extends out of the door-sill molding via the rerouting part through a guide slot.

3. The seat belt system according to claim 2, wherein the motor vehicle is a four-door motor vehicle, the belt tensioner being positioned to a side of a corresponding front seat and in front of the rerouting part, on the door sill.

4. The seat belt system according to claim 2, the motor vehicle is a two-door motor vehicle, the belt tensioner being positioned behind a corresponding front seat and behind the rerouting part, on the door sill.

5. The seat belt system according to claim 1, wherein the coupling part on the belt side is dimensioned to be guidable, upon assembly with the coupling part on the belt-tensioner side, through a guide slot in the door-sill molding.

6. The seat belt system according to claim 1, wherein the connecting device is lockable in an operating position by a locking element.

7. The seat belt system according to claim 1, wherein pin-shaped coupling parts are provided on the belt tensioner and at an end of the lap belt, are joinable with form locking in an angled position relative to each other, and are lockable in an extended position.

8. The seat belt system according to claim 7, wherein a locking element includes a sleeve, axially displaceable on one coupling part, which in the extended position of the coupling parts, slidable onto the other coupling part.

9. The seat belt system according to claim 1, wherein disposed on the coupling parts of the bayonet connection are a centric pin aligned transversely with respect to a longitudinal axis, and diametrically-opposite, circle-segment-shaped locking tongues, which in an extended position, interact with form locking with a corresponding bearing bore and with corresponding slot-shaped guide grooves.

10. The seat belt system according to claim 9, wherein the locking tongues, integrally molded on the coupling parts, are offset in stepped fashion with respect to a plane of flattenings.