Seatbelt system

• US 4,343,489 A
• Filed: 05/15/1980
• Issued: 08/10/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Ogawa, Hisashi, Suzuki, Ichiro, Motonami, Masanao
• Primary Examiner(s): SONG, ROBERT
• Application Number:
  US06/150,133
• Time in Patent Office: 817 Days
• Field of Search: 280/804, 280/802, 280/803, 280/808, 297/469
• US Class Current: 280/804
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/06 having the belt or harness connected to a member slidable in a vehicle-mounted track

Abstract

According to the present invention, in a seatbelt system, in which an end of an occupant restraining webbing is connected to a slider and this slider travels along a guide rail laid on a vehicle body so as to cause the webbing to approach or recede from the body of an occupant, the slider includes: a head; a body suspended from a central portion in cross-section of the head and inserted through a driving tape; and a leg extended from the lower end of the body and secured with an anchor plate, to which the webbing is connected, and the guide rail includes: a substantially letter `T` shaped sliding groove consisting of a head groove portion for slidably guiding the head of slider and a body groove portion for slidably guiding the body of slider; and a tape groove perpendicularly intersecting the body groove portion of the sliding groove for receiving and guiding the driving tape.

Claims

1. A seatbelt system, wherein an end of an occupant restraining webbing is connected to a slider and said slider travels along a guide rail laid on a vehicle body so as to cause the webbing to approach or recede from the body of an occupant, being of such an arrangement that:

said seatbelt system comprises a head, a body suspended from a central portion in cross-section of the head and inserted through a driving tape; and

a leg extended from the lower end of the body secured with an anchor plate, to which the webbing is connected; and

said guide rail comprises a substantially letter `T` shaped sliding groove including a head groove portion for slidably guiding the head of slider and a body groove portion for slidably guiding the body of slider and a tape groove perpendicularly intersecting the body groove portion of the sliding groove for receiving and guiding said driving tape.

2. The seatbelt system as set forth in claim 1, wherein first shoes are crowned onto said head of slider, a second shoe is crowned onto the body and an intermediate portion thereof between the head and a position, where the second shoe is crowned, is inserted through said driving tape.

3. The seatbelt system as set forth in claim 1, wherein a slidable surface of said first shoes is formed into a circularly arcuate surface having a radius of curvature smaller in value than a radius of curvature of a curved portion of the guide rail.

4. The seatbelt system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said leg of slider and said anchor plate are held in a predetermined positional relationship through engageable portions releasable by the action of a webbing tension in an emergency of the vehicle.

5. The seatbelt system as set forth in claim 1, wherein an anchor pin engageable with the head of slider is provided in the retracting end of the slider of said guide rail.

6. The seatbelt system as set forth in claim 1, wherein a position, where the anchor plate is mounted on the slider, is arranged such that the acting line of the webbing tension is close to a position, where the anchor pin is provided.

7. The seatbelt system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said leg of slider is bent with respect to the body of slider.

8. The seatbelt system as set forth in claim 1, wherein a groove portion for holding a guide rail covering member is formed at the outer surface of said guide rail.

9. The seatbelt system as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a first shoe attached on said head of said slider to slide within said head groove portion, and a second shoe attached on said body of said slider to slide within said body groove portion.