Inertia Responsive Locking Or Tightening Of Belt Or Harness Patents (Class 280/806)
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Patent number: 11628802Abstract: A subassembly includes a belt reel for a seat belt retractor and a drive wheel on which a belt tensioner can act to drive the belt reel in a winding direction of the seat belt, wherein between the drive wheel and the belt reel there is provided an overload clutch which includes plural shear elements, especially shear pins, each of which is inserted in an opening of the belt reel and/or of the drive wheel, the opening extending in the axial direction starting from a front side of the belt reel.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBHInventors: Thomas Mödinger, Milos Cekic, Andreas Pregitzer
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Patent number: 11536741Abstract: A method for determining the tension of a drive belt, wherein the drive belt is provided for transmission of a torque generated by a drive unit to a load, for example, a door leaf of a door system includes a first process step a., the load is moved from a moving state into a rest state. In a following process step b., the motor voltage is recorded during execution of process step a. and the time-resolved motor voltage curve is prepared. In step c., the motor current is determined from the recorded motor voltage or the motor voltage curve and a time-resolved motor current curve is prepared. In a last step d., the time-resolved motor current curve is evaluated and the tension of the drive belt is determined by means of selected curve features of the motor current curve.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: GEBR. BODE GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Daniel Andler
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Patent number: 11414044Abstract: Disclosed is an integrated control apparatus for active and passive safety apparatuses, which includes a sensor unit comprising a plurality of sensors for detecting a driving state of a vehicle and a controller configured to process information detected through the sensor unit, determine a driving state of the vehicle based on the processed information, compare the processed information with a preset pre-safe seat belt (PSB) threshold value, and operate a PSB for each vehicle driving state based on a result of the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventors: Cheol Woo Lee, Tae Ho Roh
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Patent number: 11370389Abstract: An assembly includes a housing. The assembly includes a spool rotatable relative to the housing. The assembly includes a cable fixed to the spool. The assembly includes a passenger restraint fixed to the cable. The assembly includes a pyrotechnic device fixed relative to the housing and designed to rotate the spool relative to the housing. The assembly includes a ratchet-and-pawl mechanism between the housing and the spool.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, S. M. Iskander Farooq, Mohammad Omar Faruque
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Patent number: 11285057Abstract: A retractor restraint system is provided for securing wheelchairs and/or people in vehicles. The system includes a housing, a retractor reel mounted to the housing rotatably in a positive and a negative direction of rotation for receiving a belt which can be coupled to a wheelchair, an arresting unit for arresting the reel to prevent rotation in the negative direction of rotation in an operating state of the retractor restraint system, a clamping unit arranged at the housing for releasably clamping fast the belt unwound from the reel, and a triggering mechanism for actuation of the clamping unit. The triggering mechanism is coupled to the arresting unit and the reel in such a way that the clamping unit is actuated when a torque acts on the reel in the negative direction of rotation and the reel is arrested by the arresting unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Bruns Holding GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Gerit Bruns
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Patent number: 11279318Abstract: A seat belt pretensioner of a vehicle include: a displacement generator to generate a linear displacement in a seat frame; and a webbing guide that receives the linear displacement generated by the displacement generator and pulls a webbing. In particular, the webbing extends from a retractor fixed to the seat frame to the outside of the seat.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventor: Hyun Woo Lee
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Patent number: 11273789Abstract: The invention relates to a restraint system for a vehicle seat, comprising a webbing belt element for restraining an occupant of the vehicle seat, further comprising a guide belt element which is guided continuously on a guideway, the holding element being securely connected to a first section of the guide belt element, wherein the webbing belt element is passed through a cutout of the holding element, wherein by means of a movement of the self-contained guide belt element on the guideway in a first direction of rotation the holding element is continuously adjustable within an adjustment section of the guideway from a second maximum position to a first maximum position.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Grammer AGInventor: Joachim Pelka
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Patent number: 11225216Abstract: A vehicle seat safety system. The vehicle safety seat system comprises a vehicle seat configured to move between a substantially reclining position and a substantially sitting position. The vehicle seat comprises at least a seat back and a seat bottom. The system also includes an enclosure configured to store a blanket airbag in an undeployed position prior to a collision, wherein the enclosure is disposed near the head of a passenger in the vehicle seat, and wherein the blanket airbag is ejected from the enclosure to an intermediate position in the event of a collision. The system further comprises a first electromechanical restraint system associated with the seat back and coupled to the blanket airbag by a first physical coupling and a second electromechanical restraint system associated with the seat bottom and coupled to the blanket airbag by a second physical coupling.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Chin-Hsu Lin, Yi-pen Cheng, Scott D. Thomas, Gary L. Jones, Paul E. Krajewski
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Patent number: 11203317Abstract: A vehicle with an occupant protection function includes an occupant protection device and an occupant monitoring device. The occupant protection device is provided in the vehicle and configured to perform protection operation of supporting, with a seatbelt, an occupant in the vehicle upon collision of the vehicle. The occupant monitoring device is provided in the vehicle and configured to monitor the occupant in the vehicle. The occupant monitoring device is configured to determine whether the occupant in the vehicle is aware of the collision of the vehicle. The occupant protection device is configured to, in a case where the occupant monitoring device determines that the occupant is unaware of the collision of the vehicle, increase tension of the seatbelt gradually as compared with a case where the occupant monitoring device determines that the occupant is aware of the collision.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota Nakamura, Junpei Tokizaki, Masayuki Marubashi, Keita Onishi
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Patent number: 11173870Abstract: A vehicle seat belt device that includes: a load transmitting member that is formed in a flexible elongate shape, an end portion, at a seat rear side, of the load transmitting member being engaged with an anchor that is secured, at a seat rear side and at a seat lower side of a seat cushion, to a vehicle body or a vehicle seat, and an end portion, at a seat front side, of the load transmitting member being engaged with a pretensioner that is provided at the seat front side and at the seat lower side of the seat cushion and which, upon activation, pulls the seat front-side end portion of the load transmitting member inside the pretensioner; and a guide portion that is provided integrally with a buckle and that abuts a middle portion of the load transmitting member.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuhito Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11110888Abstract: A seat belt buckle assembly for a motor vehicle, and also to a method for installing the seat belt buckle assembly, wherein the seat belt buckle assembly has at least one seat belt buckle, a linear belt force limiter in operative connection with the at least one seat belt buckle, and a fitting, via which fitting at least the seat belt force limiter is arranged to be body-mounted. Furthermore, the seat belt force limiter is arranged such that it can rotate on the fitting and is pivotable at least between an installation position and an operating position. To install the seat belt buckle assembly, the seat belt buckle assembly is body-mounted to the motor vehicle by the fitting in the installation position of the seat belt force limiter, and the seat belt force limiter is pivoted into the operating position after the mounting of the seat belt buckle assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventor: Witali Effenberger
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Patent number: 11084457Abstract: A restraint system for a vehicle, with which in a pre-crash phase prior to a predicted front crash time a vehicle occupant resting on a vehicle seat can be raised from a comfort position to an upright operative position by a forward displacer, in which in a crash phase a seat belt fastened on the vehicle occupant exerts a restraining effect on the vehicle occupant, in which an electromotive reversible belt pretensioner is activated to limit the restraining force exerted on the vehicle occupant to a predefined force level, namely by means of forward displacement of the vehicle occupant along a belt force limiting travel. In accordance with the invention, when raising the vehicle occupant to the operative position in the pre-crash phase, the electromotively reversible belt pretensioner generates a pre-crash belt slack so as to provide the pre-crash belt pullout travel required for raising the vehicle occupant in a restraining-force-free manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventor: Axel Ryl
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Patent number: 11046284Abstract: A force limiting device (10) for a seat belt comprises a fitting (14), a tension transfer means (36) and a deformation member (12) directly abutting on the fitting (14), wherein the fitting (14, 114) comprises a deflection unit (20, 120) in the form of a deflection pulley for the tension transfer means (36, 136).Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: TRW AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventor: Hans-Peter Betz
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Patent number: 11040689Abstract: An inflatable blanket for a vehicle includes a first blanket layer, a second blanket layer coupled to the first blanket layer, and an airbag disposed between the first blanket layer and the second blanket layer. The airbag has a deflated configuration and an inflated configuration to protect a vehicle occupant when the vehicle is subjected to an external force.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Chin-Hsu Lin, Louis D. Thole, Mark O. Neal, David Acosta
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Patent number: 11021131Abstract: A safety belt arrangement for a vehicle, with a belt force limiting unit which is constructed as a piston/cylinder assembly having a piston tube and a piston, which in the event of the belt force being limited is displaceable by a force limiting path in the piston tube, while expanding and plastically deforming the latter, whereby the belt force exerted on a vehicle occupant is limited to a predefined level of force. According to the invention, at least one tube element, which can be pushed telescopically onto the piston tube to form a double tube structure, is provided for setting the force level course over the force limiting path.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventor: Carsten Moeker
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Patent number: 10953846Abstract: A tensioner device for a seat belt with a tensioner block (1) cable passageway (2) in which there is formed a pressure chamber (3) and a pull cable (4) that can be connected to a compressed-gas powered piston and that can be connected to a seat belt component for providing a tensioning motion. The pull cable extends through the pressure chamber (3) and with a gas generator (5) that is attached to the tensioner block (1), wherein, when triggered, the gas exiting from the gas generator (5) flows through a feed section (6) of the tensioner block (1) into the pressure chamber (3), wherein a guide element (8) is formed in a transition area (7) of the feed section (6) in the pressure chamber (3) that extends via a bar (11) parallel relative to the pull cable (4) and thereby divides the transition area (7) into at least two openings (9).Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT ABInventors: Zoltan Zorgel, Imre Paul
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Patent number: 10882489Abstract: A vehicle seatbelt device includes: a three-point seatbelt, a tongue having a long hole through which an intermediate portion of the seatbelt is inserted, a buckle that has a buckle main body at which the tongue is anchored and a stay that extends from the buckle main body toward a vehicle lower side and is connected to the vehicle seat, a forward tilting mechanism that tilts the stay toward a seat front side at a time of a vehicle collision or at a time a vehicle collision is predicted, and a shoulder pretensioner that pulls in a shoulder belt of the seatbelt at a time of a vehicle collision, wherein a lower end portion of the buckle main body and an upper end portion of the stay are connected rotatably around an axis along a seat transverse direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Mitsuyoshi Ohno
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Patent number: 10864887Abstract: A seatbelt tensioner for a seat belt retractor, having a pipe (1) with a tensioner drive wheel, a gas generator (10), a piston (3), and at least one mass body (4). The mass body (4) is drivable by gas from the gas generator (10) acting on the piston (3) between the gas generator (10) and a mass body (4). The mass body drives the tensioner drive wheel. The pipe (1) has a receiving section (5) with a first inner diameter (2), in which the piston (3) in its initial state is arranged with an initial-state outer diameter (8). The pipe (1) has a guide section (6) which adjoins the receiving section (5) and which has a second inner diameter (7). The second inner diameter (7) is smaller than the first inner diameter (2) and smaller than the initial-state outer diameter (8) of the piston (3).Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT ABInventors: Christian Fischer, Markus Furchert
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Patent number: 10829015Abstract: A seat assembly includes a frame and a plurality of support members, each support member having ends spaced along a seat-longitudinal axis and connected to the frame. The seat assembly includes a cross-member fixed relative to the support members. The seat assembly includes a pyrotechnic device designed to move the cross-member and the plurality of support members to a downward position.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S. M. Iskander Farooq
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Patent number: 10800306Abstract: A vehicular locking device includes a bore having first and second ends. A gas generating device is proximate the first end. A piston is movable along an interior of the bore. The vehicular locking device includes first and second plates. The second plate includes an aperture. Activation of the gas generating device accelerates the piston through the aperture and the second plate preventing displacement of the second plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Thomas J. Susko
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Patent number: 10752203Abstract: An assembly includes a base and a seatbelt anchor. The seatbelt anchor has a first end defining a circular hole pivotally supported by the base and a second end fixed in position relative to the first end. The assembly includes a buckle fixed in position relative to the second end. The assembly includes a pyrotechnic actuator secured to the base. The assembly includes a connector extending from the pyrotechnic actuator to the seatbelt anchor.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S. M. Iskander Farooq, Zhenyan Gao, James Chih Cheng
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Patent number: 10647288Abstract: The invention relates to a belt tensioner (30) for a vehicle occupant restraint system comprising a housing (32), a working chamber (34) into which the compressed gas released in the case of restraint is flowing, a pull rope (24) extending through an opening (36) within the housing (32) and a sealing bush (10) for sealing the working chamber (34) against the opening (36) between the pull rope (24) and the housing (32), with the sealing bush (10) comprising a sleeve (16) and a sealing element (12) and the sealing bush (10) being pressed onto the pull rope (24) by plastic deforming of the outer sleeve (16).Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: TRW AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventors: Kacprzak Michal, Seitzer Dominik, Betz Hans-Peter
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Patent number: 10589713Abstract: A computer that may be programmed to: in response to receiving an indication that a vehicle is approaching a geofence boundary, retract slack in a webbing associated with a seat in the vehicle by actuating a seatbelt retractor; then receive measurement data from one or more sensors associated with the seat; using the data, determine whether an occupant occupies the seat; and when no occupant occupies the seat, then transmit an instruction to stop the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Colm Boran, Mark Crawford, Douglas Scott Rhode
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Patent number: 10543807Abstract: A restraint system includes a housing defining a cavity tapering to an end and a plug disposed in the cavity. The plug is larger than the end of the housing. A seatbelt buckle is fixed relative to one of the housing and the plug and is moveable from a first position to a second position relative to the other of the housing and the plug. The plug is moveable relative to the housing toward the end during movement from the first position to the second position. One of the housing and the plug is plastically deformable by the other of the housing and the plug during movement from the first position to the second position.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S. M. Iskander Farooq
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Patent number: 10471918Abstract: An occupant protection apparatus includes: an airbag configured to be stored in a head rest or a seat back of a vehicle seat, and the airbag being formed as a single bag that is configured to cover a head of an occupant and including a front inflating part and a right and left pair of lateral inflating parts; a three-point seat belt device including webbing equipped with a lap belt and a shoulder belt, and a belt take-up mechanism, and the belt take-up mechanism applying tension to the webbing; and a control unit that, in the event that an impact to the vehicle has been predicted or detected, activates the belt take-up mechanism before inflating and deploying the airbag.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuki Sugie, Masanobu Ohmi, Seiji Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Matsumura, Kosuke Sakakibara, Misato Kinoshita
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Patent number: 10308214Abstract: Provided are a pretensioner, a retractor, and a seat belt device in which strength and slidability of a rod-shaped power transmission member may both be achieved. A pretensioner includes a ring gear on which the spool is rotatably disposed, and power transmission units for transmitting power to the ring gear in an emergency. The power transmission units includes a rod-shaped power transmission member for transmitting power to the ring gear while being plastically deformed, a tip reinforcing member disposed on a tip side of the power transmission member, a pipe for containing the power transmission member, and a gas generator disposed at an end of the pipe. The tip reinforcing member has higher strength than the power transmission member.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: JOYSON SAFETY SYSTEMS JAPAN K.K.Inventor: Tadayuki Asako
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Patent number: 10293713Abstract: A child-restraint harness is coupled to a juvenile vehicle seat and arranged to restrain a child seat in the juvenile vehicle seat. The child-restraint harness includes first and second shoulder straps.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Dorel Juvenile Group, Inc.Inventors: Robert S. Anderson, David A. Lehman, Mei-Hui Lin
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Patent number: 10286872Abstract: A restraint system includes a housing and a rotor engaged with the housing. The housing and the rotor define a cavity therebetween. A resilient material is disposed in the cavity. A helical interface is between the housing and the rotor. The rotor is moveable relative to the housing along the helical interface. A seat belt buckle is connected to and moveable relative to one of the housing and the rotor. During a vehicle impact, the seat belt buckle may cause the rotor to move along the helical interface towards the housing. In this situation, the resilient material may be compressed between the rotor and the housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Mohammed Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi, Saeed David Barbat, James Chih Cheng, Robert William McCoy, Mohamed Ridha Baccouche
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Patent number: 10279773Abstract: On a belt tensioner cable guide member (10) comprising a guide duct (42) for a cable of a belt tensioner and comprising a pressure duct (40) for fluid communication between an inflator and a pressure chamber to which a displacement body to be driven and being coupled to the cable is assigned, a first sealing element (44) sealing the guide duct (42) against the cable and especially enclosing the cable in the peripheral direction is provided within the guide duct (42).Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: TRW Automotive GmbHInventors: Hans-Peter Betz, Dominik Seitzer
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Patent number: 10259425Abstract: A pre-tensioner for a safety belt of vehicles is provided. The pre-tensioner for a safety belt of a vehicle that is disposed in a side sill of the vehicle and that operates to pull the safety belt by pushing a piston into a tube by a high pressure gas of a gas generator using explosive power of gunpowder that is configured at one side of a bracket in a state in which the piston is connected to the safety belt through a wire within the tube including: internal and external weldnuts that are fixed to each one side of internal and external side surfaces of the side sill, wherein by penetrating the side sill in a vehicle width direction by forming a screw at an external circumference of both end portions of the tube, the both end portions are engaged with the internal and external weldnuts, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Inbum Lee, Dong Hyuk Kwak
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Patent number: 10239487Abstract: A device for controlling the correct operating state of a restraining harness, intended for a safety seat, including at least one retaining strap that is under tension when the harness is in the state of restraining the occupant, the device being intended to be disposed in a predefined area of the latter, the device including: at least one sensor device including an elongate flexible element that is suitable for being positioned on the strap, and in particular rigidly connected thereto in the predefined area, and that is provided with a measuring system to measure, in the predefined area, at least a level of bending and/or tilting of the strap, a device to collect values linked to the level of bending and/or tilting, and internal or external device configured to analyze the values and of communicating with a receiver for receiving information on the operating state of the retaining harness.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: BLUEBEEPInventors: Laurent Bailliard, Louis Develay, Edouard Dupont-Madinier, Patrick Herbault
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Patent number: 10124760Abstract: Load input to an occupant from a buckle is reduced. A lift-up buckle device includes a buckle that engages with a tongue inserted through webbing worn by an occupant. The lift-up buckle device also includes wires that each include a portion configuring a first fixed portion fixed to the buckle side and another portion configuring a supported portion supported by a wire guide, and that move the buckle due to a distance between the fixed portions and the supported portions being changed. Respective locations between the fixed portions and the supported portions of the wires are displaced in a direction intersecting an engaged direction of the tongue when an external force in a direction of the engaged direction of the tongue has been input to the buckle.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventors: Yusuke Watada, Takuhiro Saito, Yasunori Hata, Tatsuhiro Murasaki
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Patent number: 10017080Abstract: A vehicle seating assembly includes a seat having first and second retainers. A seatback includes a lower cross-member extending between the first and second retainers. An aperture is located in the lower cross-member. A single torsion bar extends between the first and second retainers and is operably coupled therewith. The torsion bar includes an intermediate portion having first and second engagement portions, which are insertably engaged with the aperture. First and second linear portions extend between the first retainer and the first engagement portion and the second retainer and the second engagement portion, respectively. First and second distal ends are configured to engage the first and second retainers, respectively, which induces a torsional resistance in the torsion bar when the seatback is displaced from a zero torsion position. The torsion bar is at the zero torsion position when the seatback is displaced rotationally forward from a design position.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Alan George Dry
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Patent number: 10000185Abstract: The invention relates to a pressure unit (64) for pressurizing a belt shaft (12) in a seat belt system comprising a screw (66) for fastening the pressure unit (64) to a frame (18) of the seat belt system, the screw (66) including a screw head (68) and a screw shank (70), wherein the pressure unit (64) comprises a fastening portion (72) having a screw hole (74) for inserting the screw shank (70), wherein radial play is provided between the screw hole (74) and the screw shank (70) and the fastening portion (72) on the screw head side includes mounting arms (76) for axially fixing the screw (66) in a pre-assembly position. Moreover, the invention also comprises an end fitting (11) of a seat belt system comprising such pressure unit (64).Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: TRW Polska SP.ZO.OInventors: Dominik Seitzer, Pawel Gorecki, Michal Kacprzak
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Patent number: 10000181Abstract: Disclosed are a pretensioner and a safety belt assembly including the same. The pretensioner includes an internal cylinder movably installed within an external cylinder with an outer surface thereof in contact with an inner surface of the external cylinder, a piston installed in the internal cylinder, a retracting member configured with one side connected to the piston and the other side configured to extend from the external cylinder and connected to a belt fastening a passenger, a gas generator configured to supply gas to the inside of the external cylinder to move the piston in a direction of pulling the retracting member, and a one-way restriction device configured to allow the piston to move with respect to the internal cylinder when the piston moves in the direction of pulling the retracting member and to restrict the piston to be within the internal cylinder when the piston moves in reverse direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventor: Eungjoo Kim
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Patent number: 9834174Abstract: A tensioner (10) for a vehicle safety device is provided with a tubular casing (12) in which a piston (18) is movably supported as well as with a closure member (26) closing the tubular casing (12) on the front face and forming a cable guide (38) for a tensioning cable (28) which may be connected to a belt buckle or an end fitting (34) and in which cable guide the tensioning cable (28) is deflected in arc shape. Further, the tensioner (10) comprises an inflator (24) accommodated in the closure member (26), wherein the tubular casing (12) includes a receiving area (14) for receiving the closure member (26) as well as a fastening portion (16) serving for fastening the tensioner (10) to a vehicle frame.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: TRW Automotive GmbHInventor: Michal Kacprzak
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Patent number: 9821756Abstract: A buckle device includes: a buckle body that retains a tongue through which a webbing worn across an occupant is inserted; a fixing plate that is fixed to a vehicle seat; a wire harness that is connected to the buckle body; and a coupling webbing that is formed in a belt shape and that couples the buckle body and the fixing plate together. The buckle device further includes a boot that covers the coupling webbing in a state in which a part of the wire harness is disposed inside the boot, and that includes a projection shaped portion that restricts movement of the wire harness in the width direction of the coupling webbing.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventors: Shuji Harada, Yasunori Hattori
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Patent number: 9821758Abstract: A seat belt assembly for a vehicle includes a pretensioner, and a cable connected to the pretensioner. The seat belt assembly includes a torsion bar having a plurality of teeth. The cable has slots interlocking with the teeth. During a sensed impact of the vehicle, the pretensioner is activated to retract the cable to pretension the seat belt assembly relative to an occupant of the vehicle. The interlocking of the slots with the teeth exerts torsional forces on the torsion bar, which yields to reduce forces on a chest of the occupant.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammed Shenaq, Mohammed Omar Faruque, S. M. Iskander Farooq, Robert William McCoy
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Patent number: 9738250Abstract: A locking mechanism comprising a coupling member comprising an arm portion which is rotatably supported by a housing and adapted to rotate in a predetermined direction in response to the actuation of the pretensioner mechanism, a pressing portion adapted to press the pawl towards an engagement direction with the ratchet gear, and a coupling portion adapted to couple the arm portion and the pressing portion; and a rotating device adapted to hold the arm portion restrict a reverse rotation thereof; in the actuation of the pretensioner mechanism, when the pawl, pressed by the pressing portion and in contact with the ratchet gear rotating in the take-up direction, passes over each of teeth of the ratchet gear, the coupling member is elastically twisted and deformed between the arm portion and the pressing portion to hold the pawl in a state of being urged toward the engagement direction with the ratchet gear.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: ASHIMORI INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichi Shigesato, Insu Choi
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Patent number: 9718438Abstract: A seat belt device includes a belt reel around which webbing is wound, a winding spring that rotationally biases the belt reel in a winding direction, a motor that is configured to transmit a driving force to the belt reel, a clutch that is interposed between the motor and the belt reel, and which performs connection/disconnection of the motor and the belt reel, a webbing speed detection unit that detects the winding speed of the webbing, a fastened/released state detection unit that detects a fastened state and a released state of the webbing, a basic winding control unit that drives the motor in the winding direction in a rotating manner and puts the clutch into a connected state, and a speed increase correction unit that increases the speed of the motor with respect to the speed of the motor obtained by the control of the basic winding control unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Shotaro Odate
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Patent number: 9539981Abstract: A seat belt retractor 100 includes stop state detecting means 118 which detects that a driving signal is not inputted to power generation means 110 and drawing-direction rotation detecting means 119 which detects that the power generation means 110 is rotating in a drawing-direction of a webbing 302. Here, a control means 200 controls the power generation means 110 to rotate in the drawing direction of the webbing 302, when the stop state detecting means 118 detects that the driving signal is not inputted to the power generation means 110 and the drawing-direction rotation detecting means 119 detects that the power generation means 110 is rotating in the drawing direction of the webbing 302.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2005Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT ABInventor: Yukinori Midorikawa
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Patent number: 9533646Abstract: A safety restraint system for a vehicle seat having a seat back, a seat cushion and a frame includes an inflatable pelvis restraint device having a flexible member extending laterally across the seat cushion and having a first end and a second end. The flexible member includes at least a portion that is inflatable for increasing a height of the seat proximate a forward edge of the seat. In one embodiment, both the first and second ends are attached to the frame. In another embodiment, the safety restraint system includes a continuous webbing that defines a pelvis restraint portion, a lap belt portion and a shoulder belt portion. The lap belt portion, the shoulder belt portion, or both may be additionally inflatable.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: AUTOLIV ASP, INC.Inventor: David W. Schneider
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Patent number: 9478375Abstract: A stationary contact for a rotary switch is provided. The stationary contact includes a connection portion for connecting to a conductor and a first portion being a contact portion for connecting the stationary contact to a rotary contact. The stationary contact also includes a second portion being a support portion for supporting the stationary contact to a switch body. The contact portion and support portion extend in the same angle from the connection portion. A method of mounting a rotary switch is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: ABB OyInventors: Oskari Uitto, Aki Suutarinen, Rainer Kolmonen
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Patent number: 9365184Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle structure comprising a seatbelt device, in which diffusion of a hot gas produced in a pretensioner is easily minimized by a simple configuration. In the vehicle structure comprising a seatbelt device, the pretensioner is provided on a rear inner side panel, and an interior material covering the pretensioner is provided on the side facing the vehicle interior. The interior material has a dividing wall provided on the rear surface, the dividing wall protruding toward the rear inner side panel. The dividing wall encloses the pretensioner and partitions the gap between the rear inner side panel and the interior material.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Isayama, Taku Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 9333944Abstract: An anchor pretensioner for a vehicle may include a bracket installed at a vehicle body side or a seat side, a cylinder installed on a lower end portion of the bracket, and in which a microgas generator (MGG) for generating explosive pressure is embedded, a rack installed in the cylinder, and moved upward by the explosive pressure, a rotator rotatably installed on an upper end portion of the bracket, engaged with the rack through a gear portion at a lower end of the rotator, and rotated when the rack is moved upward, and a lower anchor plate coupled to an upper end of the rotator, and connected to a webbing.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Taeg Young Ahn, Beom Jung Kim, Eung Joo Kim
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Patent number: 9327678Abstract: A vehicular seat belt assembly includes a pair of lateral webbing strips that extend laterally across the passenger's lap, proximal ends being manually connectable and dis-connectable from each other. A vertically extending webbing strip includes a pair of upper body strips that are configured to contact opposite sides of a front of the passenger's upper body. A sensor is configured to provide data indicative of whether the proximal ends of the pair of lateral webbing strips are connected together. A harness assembly includes a harness webbing that is attached to one of the pair of lateral webbing strips, and a wire harness that is connectable to the sensor, the wire harness extending along the harness webbing.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kevin Stockmeier, Michael Griffin, Noriyuki Muto
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Patent number: 9260077Abstract: A pretensioner comprising a gas generating unit; a pretensioner body to whose inside the gas is supplied; a spool driving member disposed inside the pretensioner body and causing a spool to rotate to retract webbing onto the spool; a gas flow rate adjusting portion disposed in the spool driving member and whose inner peripheral shape is set in accordance with a flow rate of the gas to be passed through the gas flow rate adjusting portion; and a filter unit having a vent portion that is communicated with a space between the gas generating unit and the spool driving member and is also communicated with the gas flow rate adjusting portion. The open shape of the gas flow rate adjusting portion has a portion that does not coincide in a plan view with the open shape of the vent portion, and the overall open area of the vent portion is set larger than the open area of the gas flow rate adjusting portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2011Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventors: Tomonori Nagata, Shinichi Okubo, Masaru Ukita, Katsuki Asagiri, Yasutaka Watanabe, Keiichi Kato, Yusuke Hirokawa, Hiroaki Yamazoe
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Patent number: 9221424Abstract: A safety belt strap is proposed for arrangement on a vehicle seat of a motor vehicle, with a belt tensioning section. The safety belt strap is able to be shortened via the belt tensioning section. The belt tensioning section has two marginal regions and a central region, which connects the two marginal regions, with a pyrotechnic tensioning device. The pyrotechnic tensioning device is in operative connection with the belt tensioning section such that after triggering of the pyrotechnic tensioning device the two marginal regions of the belt tensioning section are moved to one another independently of the central region, in order to shorten the safety belt strap.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2013Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Thomas Jenny
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Patent number: 9187059Abstract: The object to provide a child safety seat with which the user is able to restrain and fasten a child in a child safety seat in a optimal way is solved by the child safety seat with the five point harness according to the invention comprises a two tongue buckle, whereby the two tongue buckle comprises guiding means through which webbing is guided and the webbing comprises stopping means to allow a predetermined length of webbing to run through the guiding means and retracting means operatively connected to at least one part of the webbing.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2013Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: BRITAX RÖMER KINDERSICHERHEIT GMBHInventors: Iain Powell, David Shaun Carine
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Patent number: 9185282Abstract: There is provided a system including a housing configured to be grasped by a hand, a determination unit configured to determine whether an object point is present in a vicinity of an electronic apparatus, a recognition unit configured to recognize a relative relationship between the object point and a position of the electronic apparatus when the determination unit has determined that the object point is present in the vicinity, and a stimulation control unit configured to perform control in a manner that a stimulus is provided to a hand in accordance with the recognized relative relationship.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichiro Sako, Takatoshi Nakamura, Akira Tange, Ichiro Mayama