Abstract: A vehicle belt system includes a restraint belt having shoulder belt and lap belt ends mounted on the door and an anchor belt mounted inboard the occupant seat and connected to the restraint belt by a disconnect buckle. A storage retractor mounted on the door has the shoulder or lap belt end connected thereto. A spring biases the reel in the belt winding direction. A pawl and ratchet mechanism is operable by a reel driven cam to lock the reel in response to full unwinding of the belt from the reel so that the belt is normally held at the fully extended length appropriate for restraint of seated occupant. The retractor also includes a release device which unlocks the pawl and ratchet mechanism so that the restraint belt will be retracted and stored upon the spring wound reel when the disconnect buckle is released.

Abstract: A junction device is connected to an anchor belt retractably mounted inboard an occupant seat and slidably encircles a continuous-loop belt having upper and lower ends mounted on the door to define lap and shoulder belt portions. A yieldable spring, preferably a rubber O-ring, is sewn to the anchor belt and hooked over the junction device to establish the junction device at a normal angular position relative the anchor belt in which the junction device assumes a streamlined lie-flat position with respect to the occupant torso to thereby facilitate low interference travel of the junction device across the occupant torso during movement of the door from the closed position to the open position.

Abstract: A passive restraint belt system includes a shoulder belt having an outboard end mounted on the upper rear corner of the door and an inboard end retractably mounted on the body inboard the occupant seat. The retractor winds the belt to a diagonal restraining position across the occupant upper torso when the door is closed and permits outward and forward movement of the shoulder belt with the door to permit occupant ingress and regress when the door is opened. A tether belt has a first end attached to the shoulder belt intermediate the inboard and outboard ends and a second end connected to the door in vertically spaced relation from the outboard shoulder belt end. The length of the tether belt is adjustable by the occupant to deflect the diagonal path of the shoulder belt to fit the size of the particular occupant. The tether belt may be connected to the door by a reel which is rotatable to adjust the length of the tether belt.

Abstract: A three-point passive seat belt system includes a continuous-loop restraint belt having upper and lower ends attached to the door. A control belt has its outboard end attached to a junction ring which encircles the continuous-loop belt to define lap belt and shoulder belt portions. The inboard end of the control belt is mounted inboard the seat by a retractor reel which winds the control belt. When the door is closed the retractor winds the control belt to establish the lap and shoulder belt portions respectively across the lower and upper torso of the occupant. The outboard end of the lap belt portion is attached to the door by a resilient anchor strap forward of the MVSS 210 specified mounting location.

Abstract: A three-point passive seat belt system includes a continuous-loop restraint belt having upper and lower ends attached to the door and a control belt having an outboard end attached to a junction ring which encircles the continuous-loop belt to define lap and shoulder belt portions. An inboard retractor winds the control belt when the door is closed to establish the lap and shoulder belt portions respectively across the lower and upper torso of the occupant. The outboard end of the lap belt is attached to the door by a resilient anchor strap and disconnect buckle located substantially forward on the door to permit limited forward excursion of the occupant lower torso simultaneous with limited forward excursion of the upper torso to maintain the occupant in a more vertically upright position to thereby limit forward rotational excursion of the head.