Passive safety device

• US 4,422,668 A
• Filed: 01/11/1982
• Issued: 12/27/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/1981
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Original Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Inventors: Thill, Albert, Sukopp, Wolfgang
• Primary Examiner(s): Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Weaver, Ross
• Application Number:
  US06/338,630
• Time in Patent Office: 715 Days
• Field of Search: 280/801, 280/802, 280/804, 280/807, 280/808, 297/469, 297/473
• 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

A passive safety device for vehicles has a safety belt with at least one upper end associated with the shoulder of the vehicle occupant. This upper end of the safety belt is connectable by a manually-operable belt lock with a shackle. The shackle is held on a slide which can be displaced in a guide rail held on the vehicle body between a release position and a restraining position. The slide can be locked in the restraining position in a receiving means fixed on the vehicle body by a spring-loaded locking latch. If the slide becomes stuck at a position remote from the restraining position, the vehicle occupant can be protected by manually inserting into the receiving means one end of an emergency lock insertion shackle carried separately in the vehicle, and by fastening the belt lock to the other end of the insertion shackle.

Claims

1. A passive safety device for vehicles, for example passenger automobiles, has a safety belt with at least one upper end associated with the shoulder of a vehicle occupant, said upper end being connectable by means of a manually-operable belt lock to a shackle held on a slide which can be displaced by a guide means between a release position and a restraining position, when in the restraining position said slide can be locked in a receiving means fixed on the vehicle body by means of a spring-loaded locking latch, characterized in that there is provided a lock insertion shackle carried separately in the vehicle, one end of said lock insertion shackle being connectable with the belt lock and its other end being engageable in the receiving means.

2. A passive safety device as claimed in clam 1, characterized in that the lock insertion shackle is removably fixed on the inside of a glove compartment cover provided on the vehicle.