161 |
WEBBING TAKE-UP DEVICE |
US15641923 |
2017-07-05 |
US20180009412A1 |
2018-01-11 |
Tomonari UMAKOSHI; Takuhiro SAITO; Yuya NAGATA; Takahiro OSAKI |
A webbing take-up device includes a spool on which a webbing worn by an occupant is taken up, and a motor that includes a rotor with a rotation shaft and a motor housing covering part of the rotor, the rotor being urged toward one axial direction side of the rotation shaft with respect to the motor housing. The webbing take-up device further includes a second transmission mechanism that includes an A-gear fixed to the rotation shaft, and a B-gear meshed together with the A-gear and rotated by the A-gear being rotated toward one side together with the rotation shaft such that the spool is rotated. A helix angle of respective outer teeth of the A-gear is set such that an axial direction force toward the one axial direction side of the rotation shaft acts on the A-gear when the rotation shaft is rotated toward the one side. |
162 |
WEBBING TAKE-UP DEVICE |
US15641862 |
2017-07-05 |
US20180009411A1 |
2018-01-11 |
Tomonari UMAKOSHI; Takuhiro SAITO; Yuya NAGATA; Takahiro OSAKI |
A webbing take-up device includes a spool, a motor that includes a rotation shaft, and an A-gear, a B-gear, a holder gear, an input gear, a clutch gear, an idle gear, and a spool gear that transmit rotation of the rotation shaft to the spool. The webbing take-up device further includes clutch weights that are moved toward a rotation-radial direction outside by being rotated together with the input gear such that rotation force of the input gear is transmitted to the clutch gear. Moreover, axial centers of rotations of the A-gear, the B-gear, the input gear and the clutch gear, and the idle gear are disposed between an axial center of rotation of the holder gear and an axial center of rotation of the spool gear. |
163 |
INTELLIGENT RETRACTOR HAVING NOISE REMOVAL UNIT |
US15407665 |
2017-01-17 |
US20170341623A1 |
2017-11-30 |
Woo Young HUH |
An intelligent retractor having a noise removal unit includes: a spool around which webbing is wound; a flywheel which is provided at one side of the spool and rotates along with the rotation of the spool; a locking unit which fixes the flywheel when a predetermined condition for preventing an extension of the webbing is satisfied; and a noise removal unit which rotates along with the rotation of the flywheel when the webbing is retracted, and prevents vibration from being generated in the locking unit. |
164 |
Locking device, vehicle seat belt adjusting device, and vehicle seat belt |
US14785126 |
2013-04-17 |
US09821760B2 |
2017-11-21 |
Yingui Sun |
A locking apparatus used for controlling a movable chain, strip or strap-shaped object (71) comprising a support frame; a roll shaft (6) with a friction surface or a sprocket pitch slot (64), the roll shaft (6) being fixedly connected to a support rod (66), and one end of the support rod (66) being pivotally connected onto the support frame; a pawl (62) disposed above the roll shaft (6) and capable of rotating around one end; and a pressurization body (3) opposite to the roll shaft (6) along a transverse direction, thereby forming a roll gap between the roll shaft (6) and the pressurization body (3). The roll shaft (6) can freely rotate when the roll shaft (6) is in a middle state. When the roll shaft (6) is forced to downwards pivot until a ratchet disposed on a contact base (65) engages with a ratchet (6302) of the roll shaft (6) to prevent the rotation of the roll shaft (6), the object (71) can be locked. When the roll shaft (6) is forced upwards pivot until the ratchet (6302) of the roll shaft (6) abuts against the pawl (62), the roll shaft (6) can still rotate; when the object (71) changes the direction to downwards move, the pawl (62) engages with the ratchet (6302) of the roll shaft (6) to prevent the rotation of the roll shaft (6) and loses the engagement with the ratchet (6302) of the roll shaft (6) as the roll shaft (6) downwards pivots. |
165 |
VEHICLE SEAT |
US15498849 |
2017-04-27 |
US20170313226A1 |
2017-11-02 |
Fumitoshi AKAIKE; Yasuhiro KATO |
A vehicle seat includes: a first frame member that forms a framework of the vehicle seat and extends in a seat vertical direction or in a seat front-and-rear direction; a second frame member that extends in a seat width direction; and a component mounting bracket that allows to mount a component and is provided in an inside-seat corner portion of a connecting part of the first frame member and the second frame member, wherein the first frame member or the second frame member has a hole into which a portion of the component is inserted when the component is mounted in the component mounting bracket. |
166 |
Belt reel |
US14428380 |
2013-09-16 |
US09789847B2 |
2017-10-17 |
Franz Wier |
The invention relates to a belt reel (10) for a seat belt of a vehicle, said reel comprising a plastic base body (22) with a receiving chamber (26) that contains a belt strap pin (34) for securing a belt strap (36). In said reel, a first end (52) of the belt strap pin (34) is directly supported on the base body (22) of the belt reel (10) and a second end (56) of the belt strap pin (34) is secured in a separate receiving part (54) that is attached to the base body (22). |
167 |
VEHICLE SEAT |
US15477509 |
2017-04-03 |
US20170291511A1 |
2017-10-12 |
Fumitoshi AKAIKE; Koji KANEDA |
A vehicle seat including a controller configured to, in a case where an excessive external load in a front and rear direction, by which a first back frame part is configured to be pressed and bent toward a second back frame part, is applied to the first back frame part, adjust an inclination angle of each back frame part by driving and controlling a reclining adjuster so that the first back frame part can be pressed against the second back frame part by being bent due to the excessive external load, the first back frame part being one of a front back frame part and a rear back frame part of a seat back, and the second back frame part being another of the front back frame part and the rear back frame part. |
168 |
MOTOR VEHICLE SEATBELT RESTRAINT ARRANGEMENT |
US15310166 |
2015-05-21 |
US20170267207A1 |
2017-09-21 |
Luigi Pisaniello; Marcel Stephan; Robert Judd; Lino Fusco |
A motor vehicle seatbelt restraint arrangement including a continuous seatbelt. When the occupant is seated the seatbelt buckle tongue is drawable across the body to engage the buckle providing firstly a pre-impact configuration of the seatbelt characterised by a lap belt portion resting on the hips or upper legs of the occupant, wherein the lap belt portion is rearward vertically offset relative to an underside belt portion of the continuous seatbelt across the seating surface of the seat, and secondly an impact configuration of the seatbelt characterised by the lap belt portion and the underside belt portion being less rearward vertically offset and substantially vertically aligned one with respect to the other to provide a more vertically aligned loop of the continuous seatbelt around the hips or upper legs of the occupant at impact preventing submarining of the occupant out from the motor vehicle seat during impact. |
169 |
Winder, a torsion bar, a reel, end covers and a safety belt assembly used for a force limiting safety belt |
US14421457 |
2013-08-23 |
US09718437B2 |
2017-08-01 |
Xuejun Liu |
The present invention provides a winder used for a force limiting safety belt, comprising: a winder frame, a reel and a torsion bar. wherein, the winder frame comprises two opposite sidewalls, the corresponding positions of the two sidewalls having circular openings provided, the circular openings having internal toothed segments; the reel comprising a spindle through hole provided along the central axis of the spindle, two detachable end covers provided respectively on the two ends of the spindle, the end covers having external teeth provided along the periphery of the end covers; the torsion bar is divided into two segments in axial direction which are connected to each other by adjoining ends; in a free state, the reel is able to rotate and float provided within the winder frame, two end covers being provided in the circular through opening on the two sidewalls of the winder frame. |
170 |
Seatbelt control device, seatbelt apparatus, and seatbelt control method |
US14772469 |
2014-02-12 |
US09707925B2 |
2017-07-18 |
Hideyuki Tombe |
A seatbelt control device for controlling a seatbelt provided in a vehicle, and a seatbelt apparatus having the seatbelt control device, are provided with a restricting circuit that restricts control of the seatbelt in a case in which restricting the control of the seatbelt is permitted, and the restricting circuit, in a case in which a door provided on the vehicle is open, restricts the control of the seatbelt at a timing slower than that for a case in which the door is closed. |
171 |
REDUNDANT SAFETY BELT |
US15352961 |
2016-11-16 |
US20170136986A1 |
2017-05-18 |
Jörg BEUTLER |
The present disclosure includes a belt webbing for a safety belt system. The belt webbing may have at least one first strength member extending along the length L of the belt webbing and a second strength member extending along the length L of the belt webbing. The first strength member and the second strength member may be interconnected. |
172 |
AIR BELT DEVICE |
US15319340 |
2015-06-12 |
US20170136975A1 |
2017-05-18 |
Ryu NAKASHIMA; Masaru UKITA; Shinichi OKUBO; Tomonari UMAKOSHI; Haruhiko HASHIMOTO; Tatsuhiro MURASAKI |
An air belt device is provided with a webbing that is fitted around a vehicle occupant who is sitting in a vehicle seat, and an airbag portion that is provided in parallel with the webbing and is inflated and deployed when gas is supplied to an interior thereof. The airbag is provided with a reference portion that forms a portion of the airbag and is formed as a result of the airbag being folded. The airbag is also provided with a slack portion that forms another portion of the airbag and is formed as a result of the airbag being folded, and that extends in parallel with the reference portion and whose dimension in the transverse direction of the webbing is set longer than a dimension in the transverse direction of the webbing of the reference portion. |
173 |
RATCHETING WEB TIGHTENING APPARATUS FOR A MULTI-POINT MOTOR VEHICLE SEAT RESTRAINT SYSTEM |
US15349126 |
2016-11-11 |
US20170129451A1 |
2017-05-11 |
Douglas W. Bittner; Jacob C. White |
A web tightening apparatus is disclosed for a multi-point restraint harness having a web extendable about an occupant of a motor vehicle seat. A base frame is mounted between the seat and a floor of a motor vehicle, a web turning guide is mounted to and within the base frame with the web extending into the base frame and through the web turning guide, a ratcheting device is mounted to the base frame and has a handle, and a ratcheting web is coupled at one end to the web extending from the web turning guide and coupled at an opposite end to the ratcheting device. The ratcheting device is responsive to ratcheting actuation of the handle to draw the ratcheting web therein, wherein movement of the ratcheting web into the ratcheting device draws the web further into the base frame and thereby tightens the web about the occupant. |
174 |
Safety belt device |
US13819241 |
2011-08-26 |
US09604593B2 |
2017-03-28 |
Ulrich Klafke |
Safety belt device, in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising a roll-up spindle rotatably supported in a frame, on which roll-up spindle a safety belt is held with its one end, wherein the roll-up spindle is biased into a roll-up position, in which the safety belt is rolled up on the roll-up spindle and the safety belt can be rolled off the roll-up spindle against the bias by rotating the roll-up spindle and wherein a torsion rod is provided in the roll-up spindle which is fastened to the roll-up spindle with a first end and which is fastened to the frame with a second end, wherein a plastic material is molded around the torsion rod in the roll-up spindle, wherein at least the second end of the torsion rod is free from the plastic material. |
175 |
VEHICLE SEAT BELT DEVICE AND OCCUPANT PROTECTION SYSTEM |
US15204323 |
2016-07-07 |
US20170057459A1 |
2017-03-02 |
Toru KONDO; Mitsuyoshi OHNO |
An occupant protection system includes: arm rests that are disposed on first and second width direction sides of a seat back and are rotatable between a substantially vertical storage position and a substantially horizontal use position; slide members that are slidable along the arm rests and have belt guides; a retractor that takes up webbing of a belt; and an electronic control unit that, (i) in a state before an occupant is seated in a vehicle seat, causes the arm rests to be held in the storage position and causes the slide members to slide in the seat upward direction above the head of the occupant, and that, (ii) when the occupant is seated, causes the arm rests to rotate to the use position, causes the slide members to slide toward base sides of the arm rests, and causes the webbing to be taken up by the retractor. |
176 |
FRAME FOR A VEHICLE SAFETY BELT RETRACTOR, VEHICLE STRUCTURE FOR MOUNTING A BELT RETRACTOR, AND SHEET METAL BLANK FOR A FRAME FOR A VEHICLE SAFETY BELT RETRACTOR |
US15115364 |
2015-01-19 |
US20170008485A1 |
2017-01-12 |
Jens Bohn; Thomas Kielwein; Beate PFISTER |
A frame (10) for a vehicle seat belt retractor comprises a back part (12), two side legs (16) extending in parallel to each other starting from the back part (12), with a retaining aperture (18) for a belt reel being provided in each side leg (16), and a mounting structure for mounting the frame (10) fixed to the vehicle, wherein the mounting structure includes a retaining bracket (22) having a mounting hole (36) for a retaining means (50) and at least one deformable deformation element (46). Furthermore, in accordance with the invention a vehicle structure for mounting a belt retractor in a vehicle is provided comprising a body part (52) and a frame (10) according to the invention. Moreover, a sheet metal blank for such frame is provided. |
177 |
PASSENGER RESTRAINT HOUSING FOR VEHICLE |
US14751451 |
2015-06-26 |
US20160375858A1 |
2016-12-29 |
Jeffery L. Biegun |
A passenger restraint housing for a vehicle including a frame having a top surface and a bottom surface, a retractor secured to the bottom surface of the frame and operatively arranged to hold a seat belt, and at least one mounting bracket, where the mounting bracket is arranged to be secured to the body of the vehicle. The frame further includes a first portion, a first transition, a second portion, a second transition, and a third portion. The first and second portions are secured to one another via the first transition and the second and third portions are secured to one another via the second transition. The first and second portions are disposed at opposite ends of and integral with the first transition and the second and third portions are disposed at opposite ends of and integral with the second transition. |
178 |
MOTOR VEHICLE WITH SAFETY BELT RESTRAINT SYSTEM |
US15184313 |
2016-06-16 |
US20160368450A1 |
2016-12-22 |
Christian KUHLEY |
A safety belt restraint system is disclosed for a rear seat of a motor vehicle. The safety belt restraint system includes a safety belt and a belt retractor fastened to a mounting device. The mounting device includes a plurality of fasteners and a connecting part with which the belt retractor can be fastened to the mounting device. The connecting part can be fastened to at least one fastening element and to the belt retractor. The belt retractor is indirectly fastened by the mounting device to a support structure of the back part. The mounting device is an intermediate modular part, and no connecting part is fastened to the fastening element, so that various belt retractors, in particular with various connecting parts, can be fastened to the intermediate modular part. |
179 |
Vehicle rear structure |
US14435197 |
2013-10-25 |
US09499206B2 |
2016-11-22 |
Chitoshi Sugano |
In a vehicle to which a vehicle rear structure is applied, a rear roof-side inner of a roof-side inner is joined to a front roof-side inner of the roof-side inner at locations of first joins, of an overlap flange. Configuration is thereby such that strength is high at the overlap flange of the roof-side inner. Moreover, the rear roof-side inner is joined to both the front roof-side inner and the upper support at the location of a second join of the overlap flange. This enables upthrust load from a rear suspension to be effectively transmitted to the overlap flange, and distributed to the front roof-side inner and the rear roof-side inner. This enables rigidity of the roof-side inner to be secured. |
180 |
Vehicle |
US14666646 |
2015-03-24 |
US09475413B2 |
2016-10-25 |
Tomoyuki Hayashi; Kazuo Sunahiro; Fumihiro Hidaka |
A vehicle includes a pair of support portions that connect a frame portion and a roll-over protection cage to each other; a cross member that extends in a width direction of the vehicle and connects the pair of support portions to each other at positions higher than centers of the pair of support portions in an up-down direction of the vehicle; a first seat portion, a second seat portion, and a third seat portion in a front row; and a seat belt unit corresponding to the second seat portion. The seat belt unit includes a winding device located at a position lower than a shoulder anchor. The cross member is located between an upper end of the shoulder anchor and a lower end of the winding device in a front view of the vehicle, and supports the shoulder anchor and the winding device. |