Seatbelt retractor
    1.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11338767B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-24

    申请号:US17058827

    申请日:2019-09-17

    发明人: Atsushi Ichida

    IPC分类号: B60R22/46 B60R22/28

    摘要: A spool 20 and a locking base 40 are connected through a torsion bar 70. A stop gear 82 and a positioning member 86 are engaged through threads with the male thread 42c of a locking base 40 so as to be separated from each other a predetermined distance. The locking base 40 and the torsion bar 70 are mounted to the spool 20 while the distance of separation between the stop gear 82 and the positioning member 86 is accurately set to a specified distance. When the tension of webbing increases due to the movement of a vehicle occupant in a vehicle collision and provides the torsion bar 70 with EA rotation while twisting the torsion bar 70, the stop gear 82 advances toward the positioning member 86 and comes into contact therewith.

    Seatbelt webbing including auxetic portion

    公开(公告)号:US11220765B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-11

    申请号:US16592805

    申请日:2019-10-04

    IPC分类号: D03D1/00 B60R22/12 B60R22/28

    摘要: A seatbelt webbing includes an auxetic portion elongated along an axis. The auxetic portion includes a plurality of segments rotatably connected to each other at hinges. The hinges are spaced along the axis and are transverse to the axis. The auxetic portion includes a plurality of strands. Each strand is embedded in at least two of the hinges. When tensile force above a predetermined level is applied to the auxetic portion by a vehicle occupant, e.g., the chest of the vehicle occupant, the auxetic portion both stretches along the axis and widens transverse to the axis, i.e., has a negative Poisson ratio.

    Seat belt device for a vehicle seat

    公开(公告)号:US11192520B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-07

    申请号:US17001624

    申请日:2020-08-24

    发明人: Carsten Moeker

    IPC分类号: B60R22/26 B60R22/28 B60R22/18

    摘要: A seat belt device for a vehicle seat, having a seat belt, the belt tongue of which in an engaged state is releasably connected to a seat-side belt buckle. The belt buckle is guided via at least one wire rope through a sleeve-like deflection element, which defines the course of the wire rope between its connection point on the seat side and its connection point on the belt buckle side. The sleeve-like deflection element has a predetermined deformation point, at which the deflection element is deformed in the event of a head-on collision, more specifically with the belt buckle being displaced from its use position into a crash position in which the tilt or twist moments acting on the belt buckle are reduced.

    Vehicle occupant protection device

    公开(公告)号:US11124141B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-21

    申请号:US16737187

    申请日:2020-01-08

    摘要: A vehicle occupant protection device includes: a seat belt device having a selectable force limiter that is configured to switch a force limiter load from a high load to a low load; an airbag device that deploys an airbag in front of the occupant; a movement direction detector that detects a direction in which a head region of the occupant will move relative to the vehicle at the time of frontal collision; an initial position detector that detects a position of the head region prior to the movement; and a control unit that makes a determination whether or not the head region will move outside of an area of protection by the airbag based on detection results of the movement direction detector and the initial position detector and, in a case in which the determination is affirmative, maintains the high load of the force limiter load.

    Force limiter
    7.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11046284B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-29

    申请号:US16468718

    申请日:2017-12-12

    发明人: Hans-Peter Betz

    IPC分类号: B60R22/18 B60R22/28

    摘要: 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).

    Belt retractor having a second force limiter

    公开(公告)号:US11027695B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-08

    申请号:US16090606

    申请日:2017-04-05

    IPC分类号: B60R22/46 B60R22/34 B60R22/28

    摘要: The invention relates to a belt retractor comprising a frame (10), a belt reel (12) rotatably arranged within the frame, a blocking mechanism (18) by which the belt reel (12) can be blocked within the frame (10), and a load limiter (14) which is detachably coupled to the belt reel (12), characterized in that for coupling the load limiter (14) at least one load-transmitting bar (28) is used which is arranged at the belt reel (12) and is retained in a coupling position by a support ring (32), wherein the support ring (32) can be moved from a supporting position to a release position by means of an actor (70).

    Vehicle seat
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11027630B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-08

    申请号:US16667226

    申请日:2019-10-29

    发明人: Kazuya Mori

    摘要: A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion, a pair of left and right side frames, a webbing including a lap webbing portion, and a buckle. The vehicle seat also includes a first link bracket that is connected to the webbing, and a second link bracket that is connected to the buckle and that is tilted toward one side together with the first link bracket by pulling on the lap webbing portion. The vehicle seat also includes a restriction bar that links the first link bracket and the second link bracket together in a seat width direction, that is moved toward a seat upper side by tilting of the first link bracket and the second link bracket toward the one side, and that restricts movement of an occupant seated on the seat cushion toward a seat front side.

    Seat belt retractor
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11014529B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-25

    申请号:US16399723

    申请日:2019-04-30

    发明人: Mark Gray

    IPC分类号: B60R22/28 B60R22/46

    摘要: A seatbelt retractor for a seat belt device in a vehicle. The retractor includes a frame and a spool configured to be fixed to one end of a seat belt webbing so that the webbing may be wound around the spool. The spool is rotatably mounted at both ends to the frame and configured to rotate in a webbing extraction direction and a webbing retraction direction. The retractor includes a staged torsion bar positioned end to end in the spool along an axis of rotation of the spool. The retractor also includes a shift assembly to shift between the stages of the staged torsion bar. The shift assembly includes a shift link locked by a shift collar and a shift ring meshed in a shift plate.