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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110254257 | BELT LATCH FOR A SAFETY BELT A belt latch including a connection plate, for connecting it to a buckle, and a latch main body rigidly connected thereto. The latch main body may have a cut-open hollow cylindrical portion housing a bending and clamping element arranged to rotate in relation thereto fr... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110148088 | VEHICLE HAVING UTILITY BED AND PASSENGER RESTRAINT ASSEMBLY A vehicle includes a vehicular frame, a utility bed, and a passenger restraint assembly. The utility bed is coupled with the vehicular frame and includes a bed floor, a side wall, and a rear scat. The passenger restraint assembly includes a securing member, a belt and a... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110140405 | DEVICES FOR ADJUSTING TENSION IN SEAT BELTS AND OTHER RESTRAINT SYSTEM WEBS, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS Devices that can be releasably attached to seat belts and other restraint system webs to adjust the operational tension in the webs are described herein. In one embodiment, a seat belt web passes through a clamping device that includes a button movably coupled to a hous... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110001310 | Vehicle Seat Belt-Offering Device and Three-Point Automatic Belt A three-point automatic belt has an offering arm, which is rotatably mounted by means of a drive, for a seat in a vehicle. A rotatably mounted offering arm is designed as a belt strap part, which is stiffened in one plane, of a belt strap, and can be deflected by means ... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100219625 | Tongue Storage Device and Seat Belt Apparatus Having The Same In a tongue storage device according to the present invention, a pickup portion (4c) is picked up and an anchor tongue (5) is then rotated, which causes the anchor tongue (5) to abut on an occupant restraint tongue (6). The tongue (... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100194089 | SEATBELT DEVICE OF VEHICLE A belt anchor comprises an anchor portion which changes the extending direction of a belt body toward a vehicle front, a bolt which supports the anchor portion, and a nut which fastens the bolt. The belt anchor is fixed to a lift gate inner and a second reinforcement at... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100176581 | ACTIVE MATERIAL BASED SAFETY BELT BUCKLE PRESENTER A safety belt buckle presenter adapted for use with a translatable buckle includes an active material element operable to undergo a reversible change when exposed to an activation signal, wherein the element is drivenly coupled to the buckle, and configured to cause the... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100140913 | SEAT BELT RETRACTOR AND SEAT BELT APPARATUS PROVIDED THERWITH A seat belt retractor (6) according to the present invention, when mounted on a vehicle body, has an ECU (16) laid out in such a manner that an ECU connector (16c) faces a vehicle side connector (18) mounted to a predetermined position... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100127488 | Releasable Retractable Seatbelt Deforming Clip An improved seatbelt clip is defined by a retractable tether anchored at the buckle intersection of a seatbelt. The retractable tether is connected at its end to a clipping device that accommodates a folded section of seatbelt. A user folds the shoulder strap of a seatb... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100084906 | RETRACTOR WITH PRETENSIONER FOR AUXILIARY LOAD LIMITATION An assembly having a retractor and a pretensioner whereby the pretensioner can be employed to provide load limitation features. The pretensioner may also be used without the load limitation features. The pretensioner has a drive mechanism including a plurality of preten... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100078252 | Vehicle Passenger Restraint System A vehicle passenger restraint system is disclosed. The restraint system has a pair of vertically extending shoulder strap portions, horizontally extending positioning strap portions attached to the shoulder strap portions, and horizontally extending lower strap portions... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100013205 | Seat Belt Retractor and Torsion Bar Providing Secondary Load Limiting A torsion bar, constructed in accordance with the teachings of the present invention, an elongated bar has a first end, a second end, and a mid-section between the first and second ends. The first end of the elongated bar has a material void. The first end preferably ha... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100001503 | Seat belt apparatus and seat belt control method [Problems] To allow an occupant to easily wear a seat belt without twisting his or her body when the occupant sits in a seat. [Means for Solving the Problems] When a door sensor 60 detects the opening of a door, a motor is driven to ... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090322067 | VEHICLE OCCUPANT RESTRAINT APPARATUS A vehicle occupant restraint apparatus includes: a retracting device that retracts one end side of a webbing for restraining an occupant so that the webbing can be withdrawn; a webbing holding portion that holds the other end side of the webbing; and a fixing member to ... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090267339 | BELT RETRACTOR UTILIZING ACTIVE MATERIAL ACTUATION A seat belt retractor utilizing active material actuation for selectively modifying the tension in a seat belt.... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090218803 | Seat belt retractor A seat belt retractor for a safety belt including a seat belt spindle for winding up and unwinding the safety belt and a tensioning drive. The seat belt spindle includes a gas generator, a drive wheel and a supply pipe which connects the gas generator and the drive whee... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090218802 | Retaining System With Seat Belt Retractor and Pretensioner Device A restraining system for a motor vehicle with a seat belt retractor that accommodates the one end of a seatbelt component, which has a tightening device having a belt shaft and a drive cable connected to the belt shaft, in which a sleeve (26) that enlarges the ou... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090127840 | Method for Controlling a Belt Hand-Over Device and Belt Hand-Over Device for a Motor Vehicle A method for controlling a belt hand-over device during a delivery movement for taking up and delivering a seat belt into a presentation position ergonomically favorable for a user is provided. A belt finger taking up the seat belt is extended into an extended position,... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090108577 | OCCUPANT PROTECTION DEVICE OF VEHICLE A lap-belt pre-tensioner operative to draw in a lap belt is disposed on an upper face of a projecting portion so as to extend in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle from an disposition portion of a lower support member, and on the upper face of the projecting portion ... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090096202 | Pretensioner and seat belt apparatus A pretensioner for restraining an occupant with a seat belt by withdrawing a seat belt buckle upon occurrence of an impact on a vehicle. The pretensioner includes a wire. One end portion of the wire is connected to the seat belt buckle and the other end portion of the w... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090079178 | VEHICLE SEATBELT APPARATUS A vehicle seatbelt apparatus includes a inhibiting section for inhibiting a belt-reel driving motor from being driven when it determines, on the basis of an output signal from a rotational position detecting unit associated with a belt reel, that variation in the rotati... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090066072 | VEHICLE SEATBELT APPARATUS A vehicle seatbelt apparatus includes a power supply voltage fluctuation detecting section incorporated in a control device for detecting fluctuations of power supply voltage occurring when an engine cranking operation is being performed. The control device changes driv... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090058063 | Seat belt retractor and seat belt apparatus A seat belt retractor includes at least one frame having a back board and side walls extending from side rims of the back board, a spool supported by the at least one frame configured to wind up a seat belt, a motor configured to rotate the spool, and an electronic cont... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090058062 | Seat belt apparatus and seat belt retractor A seat belt retractor includes a frame having a back plate and a side wall protruding from each of multiple side edges of the back plate. The seat belt retractor also includes a spool supported by the frame and configured to rotate and wind a seat belt, a motor configur... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090051156 | Seat belt retractor and seat belt apparatus A seat belt retractor including an integral electronic control unit (ECU). The ECU is detachably installed between lower edges of respective both side walls of a frame. Further, a motor is detachably fixed to a lower surface of a case of the ECU. Since the ECU is dispos... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090051157 | Seat belt apparatus and seat belt retractor A seat belt retractor includes a frame having a back plate and a side wall protruding from each of a plurality of side edges of the back plate. The seat belt retractor also includes a spool supported by the frame and rotating to wind a seat belt, a motor for rotating th... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090048739 | Seat belt device A seat belt device includes a detecting unit and a controller which controls a motor to rotate in a winding direction of a webbing when the detecting unit detects that an adjust-through which adjusts a position of a D-ring through which the webbing is inserted is moved ... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090026828 | Seat belt apparatus The invention relates to a seat belt apparatus for motor vehicles comprising a seat belt, a belt retractor and a drive, which preferably comprises an electric motor, for the retractor, wherein a unidirectionally effective blocking member is integrated into the powertrai... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090008919 | Vehicle occupant restraint and method A component of a vehicle occupant restraint system, the vehicle occupant restraint system having a webbing with a lap belt portion and a shoulder belt portion contiguous with the lap belt portion, the component including a web engaging device adapted to toggle between a... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080309062 | SEAT INTEGRATED TETHER SYSTEM A seat integrated tether system for use in a vehicle for the secure placement of an article on a vehicle seat. One or more retractable or extendable tethers are adapted for attachment to the side of the vehicle seat. By use of the system with the front passenger seat of... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080238178 | Vehicle Seat Belt Assembly A seat belt assembly is provided for an occupant seated in a seat that includes a seat back portion and a seat base portion having an outboard side. The seat belt assembly includes a continuous seat belt having a lap belt and shoulder belt. The lap belt has an inboard p... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080238076 | Seatbelt retractor A seat belt retractor includes a seat belt winding device for winding up a seat belt by actuation of a motor and a control unit that repeats a process of stopping the actuation of the motor on an overload of the motor and restarting actuation of the motor after lapse of... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080231035 | Belt Retractor A belt retractor (10) is suitable especially for use in an adaptive seat belt system and has a rotatable belt roll (14), a rotary member (18) that can be connected in a torsion-proof manner to the belt roll (14), and an actuator (32; 72 | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080231036 | Seatbelt retractor A seat belt retractor includes a seat belt winding device for winding up a seat belt by actuation of a motor and a control unit. The control unit, under a predetermined condition, repeats a process of stopping the actuation of the motor when an overload of the motor is ... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080191458 | Failure Diagnosis Method of Seat Belt System and Seat Belt System Having Failure Diagnosis Function A seat belt apparatus is provided which includes a retractor having an electric motor to retract or draw out a seat belt, a motor information detecting means to detect an amount of rotation and a current value of the electric motor, a first condition detecting means to ... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080174098 | Seatbelt apparatus A method of controlling a motorized retractor includes a spool onto which a webbing belt for restraining an occupant is wound, a motor operated according to a predetermined signal, and a clutch mechanism enabling transmission of power from the motor to the spool. When c... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080093833 | VEHICLE SEAT BELT APPARATUS A seat belt apparatus includes a belt reel having a belt wound thereon, a motor for driving the reel to take up the belt; a control section for adjusting an amount of electric current supply to the motor to thereby control a belt-taking-up driving force of the motor, a ... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080079254 | Seat belt retractor and seat belt apparatus A seat belt retractor includes a winding device for winding and unwinding a webbing by rotation and a winding state detection mechanism for detecting the winding state of said webbing onto the winding device. The winding state detecting mechanism includes a first gear w... | 04/03/2008 |
| 20080054618 | Motorized Seatbelt Retractor To securely hold occupants without interruption during breakage caused by collision using each ECU in a system configuration based on a motorized seatbelt retractor having an ECU combined with a motor in which harness length along which many currents flow is made short.... | 03/06/2008 |
| 20080023955 | Cord brake There is described a brake, in particular a seat belt brake, for braking a component rotating about an axis of rotation with a brake body mounted on the axis of rotation, two bearing elements mounted on the axis of rotation and arranged one on each side of the brake bod... | 01/31/2008 |
