Abstract:
A restraint system for a utility vehicle comprising a first restraint including a first retractor coupled to the utility vehicle at a first retractor anchor point, a first webbing retractable into the first retractor and having a first end and a second end, a first latch moveably engaged with the first webbing, and a first latch receiver configured to receive the first latch, and a second restraint including a second retractor coupled to the utility vehicle at a second retractor anchor point, a second webbing extendable from and retractable into the second retractor and having a first end coupled to the second retractor and a second end, a second latch coupled to the second webbing, and a second latch receiver positioned at a second receiver anchor point and configured to receive the second latch and retain the second end of the second webbing adjacent the second receiver anchor point.
Abstract:
A four-point seat belt device includes two shoulder belts to press the shoulders of a passenger sitting in a seat, a restraint element extending between the two shoulder belts, and a driving unit arrangement to perform winding of the belts upon detection of a collision.
Abstract:
A four-point seat belt device includes right and left lap belts to press the hipbone of a passenger sitting in a seat, two shoulder belts to press both shoulders of the passenger, a driving unit to perform winding of the lap belts and the shoulder belts, and a latching detecting unit to detect a state in which the lap belts and the shoulder belts are latched via a buckle. The driving unit controls the lap belts in the case that the latching detecting unit has detected latching.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a device that after the belt slack present in a belt system has been removed by a tightening system, with the aid of a compressed gas stored in a tank generates a force via a piston/cylinder system in the belt system, which force has the necessary level in the event of an accident to stop the occupant. The impingement of the piston with the compressed gas in the tank can occur through the release of the breechblock piston secured with a blocking pin or also with a projectile destroying a membrane. The compressed gas located in the container can also be brought to the necessary operating pressure by a pyrotechnical propellant charge in the event of a collision, at which pressure a rupture membrane then breaks. The maximum level of the gas pressure can be influenced by a control valve. The reduction of the gas pressure after the end of the collision can be carried out through a throttle opening.
Abstract:
A vehicle occupant protection system (10) includes a sensor (16) which is effective to sense a distance between a vehicle (12) and an object (14) adjacent to the vehicle (12). The sensor (16) also is effective to provide a sensor signal (18) indicative of the distance between the vehicle (12) and the adjacent object (14). The system (10) also includes a length of seat belt webbing (26) extensible about an occupant (28) of the vehicle. An actuatable mechanism (22) is operatively connected with the webbing (26). The actuatable mechanism (22) is operable to effect a tightening of the webbing (26) around the vehicle occupant (28) upon the sensor signal (18) indicating that the distance between the vehicle (12) and the adjacent object (14) is within a predetermined distance.
Abstract:
A vehicle seat system for a vehicle seat mounted on the vehicle floor is provided including a resilient vehicle seat bun for normally supporting a seated occupant at a given height above the vehicle floor; a lap restraint to cross over the seated occupant to restrain the occupant in the vehicle seat; a belt wrench tensionally associated with the lap restraint to tension the lap restraint to an extent to significantly pull down toward the vehicle floor the seated occupant into the seat bun such that the seated occupant's head is brought closer to the floor; and a sensor to activate the belt wrench when the vehicle undergoes a displacement condition indicative of a vehicle rollover condition.
Abstract:
A seat back movement prevention device of a belt-in seat enables a certain prevention of falling down of a seat back at a vehicle collision time of a vehicle mounting a 3-point belt-in seat, the seat back movement prevention device of a belt-in seat is made of one of a belt, a wire, and a chain of which one end side is attached to an upper part of a seat frame disposed in a seat back of a 3-point belt-in seat, and a pretensioner for a seat back being equipped at downward of the seat back, and rewinding one of the belt, the wire, and the chain at an activation time of a pretensioner for a seat belt.
Abstract:
A seatbelt apparatus is provided which can constrain a passenger by ensuring removal of a slack of a lap belt when two pretensioners are activated under two different time frames. A pretensioner of a seatbelt retractor is activated first, and a shoulder belt and a lap belt are pulled in a direction toward the seatbelt retractor. Subsequently, a pretensioner of a belt anchor portion is activated and pulls a seatbelt toward the belt anchor portion, and hence a one-way tongue catches and locks the seatbelt. Accordingly, the shoulder belt is prevented from moving toward the lap belt through the tongue. Therefore, removal of the slack of the lap belt is ensured, and hence a lumber of the passenger is firmly fixed.
Abstract:
A webbing take-up device includes a speed-reduction mechanism that reduces rotation speed of a motor to transmit rotation force to a take-up shaft. An overload release mechanism is disposed at a middle position of the speed-reduction mechanism. The overload release mechanism includes a large-diameter gear rotating with the rotation speed of the motor being reduced and the rotation force being transmitted, a spring member mounted to the large-diameter gear, and a small-diameter gear provided to rotate relatively to the large-diameter gear, rotating the take-up shaft when the rotation speed thereof is reduced and the rotation force is transmitted to the take-up shaft, engaging with the spring member to become a state where relative rotation with respect to the large-diameter gear is stopped, and slides with the spring member when the rotation force acts between the large-diameter gear to become a state where relative rotation to the large-diameter gear is allowed.
Abstract:
A vehicle occupant restraint system includes: a lap belt that restrains a hip of a seated occupant; a shoulder belt that has a lower end portion coupled to a middle portion of the lap belt in a seat width direction and that is used to restrain an upper body of the seated occupant; a lap belt tensioner that applies tension to the lap belt; and a shoulder belt tensioner that applies tension to the shoulder belt. When a vehicle collision is predicted or detected, the lap belt tensioner is activated before the shoulder belt tensioner is activated.