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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8157045 | Occupant protection device and control method thereof An occupant protection device includes a seat belt that restrains an occupant, an adjusting device that relatively adjusts a positional relationship between the seat belt and the occupant, a collision predicting portion that predicts a collision, and a control porti... | 04/17/2012 |
| 7997374 | Vehicle occupant safety system and method for detecting the position of a vehicle occupant A vehicle occupant safety system has at least one restraint device having at least one adjustable parameter, a vehicle seat having at least one seat sensor detecting the sitting position of a vehicle occupant, a seatbelt system having at least one belt extension sen... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7992669 | Vehicle seat belt apparatus and control method therefor Vehicle seat belt apparatus includes an electric-type pretensioner that includes a motor for rotationally driving a belt reel to take up a belt. The apparatus also includes: a take-up position detection section for detecting a take-up position of the reel; a traveli... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7946375 | Seat belt retractor and seat belt apparatus The disclosed seat belt retractor and seat belt apparatus may comprise: an electric motor; a spool that is capable of winding and unwinding a seat belt for occupant restraint in association with the driving of the electric motor; and a controller for controlling the... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7905313 | Vehicle seat-belt device and control method thereof A vehicle seat-belt apparatus including: a forward monitoring device which conducts monitoring to the front of a vehicle; an avoidance assist device which supports a predetermined avoidance operation in order to avoid an obstacle when it is determined that there is ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7882920 | Vehicle braking force controller A braking force application control is performed when a change in a driver's posture takes place while a brake pedal is turned on when a vehicle is stopped. As a consequence, in a case in which the driver's posture changes such as when the driver turns to a rear sea... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7836994 | Seat belt retractor and seat belt apparatus The disclosed seat belt retractor and seat belt apparatus may comprise: an electric motor; a spool that is capable of winding and unwinding a seat belt for occupant restraint in association with the driving of the electric motor; and a controller for controlling the... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7836995 | 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... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7828104 | Travel safety device for motor vehicle A travel safety device for a vehicle comprises: an object detecting unit (114) for detecting an object existing in the traveling direction of the vehicle (100); a correlation calculating unit (39) for calculating a correlation involving the dist... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7828105 | Seatbelt device for vehicle and control method thereof A seatbelt device for a vehicle provided with: a webbing that restrains a passenger seated on a seat; a belt reel on which the webbing is wound; a motor that rotation-drives the belt reel; a motor control device that controls the motor; an input determination device... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7823679 | 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. Wh... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7815006 | Seat belt winding method, seat belt retractor, and seat belt apparatus To provide a seat belt winding method, a seat belt retractor, and a seat belt apparatus capable of stopping the motor even when the seat belt is being wound and restarting the winding of the seat belt, and capable of reducing excess repetition of stopping and starti... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7798275 | Restraint system An arrangement for automatically supporting a vehicle occupant in a vehicle seat when lateral dynamic forces are acting includes a restraint system for securing an upper body of the vehicle occupant in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle as a function of the lat... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7784578 | Vehicle safety system A safety system for a vehicle includes a window actuator connected to a window system of the vehicle for moving a window to an open position, a door lock actuator connected to a door lock system of the vehicle for moving the door lock system to the unlocked position... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7766117 | Motor-driven seatbelt apparatus A motor-driven seatbelt apparatus which enables easy re-restraining of a webbing even when an occupant releases the webbing temporarily from a restrained state. A control device senses the vehicle velocity with a vehicle-velocity sensor. When the vehicle velocity is... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7753158 | Seat belt apparatus A seat belt retractor, which is capable of winding and unwinding a seat belt for occupant restraint by mechanism of an electric motor, removes slack of the seat belt and controls the restraining feeling on a vehicle occupant to be as little as possible. A seat belt ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7740096 | Device for adjusting seat components A device for adjusting seat components as a function of a signal from a video sensor system. Furthermore, a safety belt is adjusted as well as a function of the signal. This adjustment is carried out as a function of the occupant class, the occupant volume, the occu... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7717216 | Automatic safety belt release This patent discloses a system to release a seatbelt in a vehicle automatically. The system may include a seatbelt sensor, mishap sensors, a controller, and a guillotine unit. The controller may communicate signals with the seatbelt sensor and mishap sensors and the... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7717215 | Seat belt retractor A seat belt apparatus to be installed in a vehicle is structured such that a motor for rotating a spool of a seat belt retractor is controlled to drive in the belt winding direction to apply a first tension on a seat belt before a vehicle collision and the motor is ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7712567 | Seat belt apparatus The seat belt retractor is provided that comprises an electric motor; a spool operatively associated with the electric motor for winding and unwinding a seat belt for occupant restraint; and a controller. The controller can be configured to control a drive of the el... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7686118 | Seatbelt apparatus A seatbelt apparatus (15) includes a seatbelt (14) for restraining an occupant (10) in a seat (13) of a vehicle, an actuator (29) for tightening the seatbelt (14) at various levels of tension and for loosening the seatbelt (... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7686117 | Safety arrangement A safety arrangement incorporates a seat-belt (3) to protect an occupant (2) of a vehicle seat (1). A control unit (11) incorporates a calculator (18) to calculate the weight of the occupant (2) of the seat occupant, by comp... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7686119 | Apparatus for reinforcing seatbelt usage in automobiles A technique for reinforcing seatbelt usage in automobiles is described. One implementation of which includes a weight sensor in the car seat that detects occupancy by a person and generates an occupancy signal that is transmitted to a seatbelt monitor unit that rece... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7681683 | 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... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7644798 | Safety arrangement A safety arrangement for detecting the position of an occupant (4) of a seat (1) which is provided with a safety belt (9) which is mounted on a retractor (10) includes a sensor (11) which measures the length of belt withdrawn from ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7631720 | 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 laps... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7624833 | Seat-belt pretensioner arrangement A seat-belt pretensioner arrangement includes a pretensioner configured to apply at least two tension levels to a seat-belt and a control system to control the pretensioner. A control system is configured to provide at least one vehicle slip function which is derive... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7607508 | Vehicle side collision occupant restraint system A safety restraint system (10) for a vehicle (12) includes a seat belt buckle (60) and a retractor (53) mounted approximately at or below a pelvic level of a vehicle occupant (98). A seat belt (52) extends over a side pelvic... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7597170 | Method for controlling the operation of a reversible belt retractor in a motor vehicle In a method for controlling the operation of a reversible belt retractor to release a belt extraction lock of a restraint belt in a motor vehicle, the lock can be activated by an acceleration sensor. After the belt retractor has been triggered as a consequence of a ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7588114 | Seat belt retractor system A seat belt retractor system for a vehicle having a vehicle safety system. The seat belt is retracted at a faster rate when a threat is detected using a high-voltage generated by a local power source. ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7581613 | Seat belt device The seat belt device includes a first unit, a second unit, seat belt webbing, a spindle, a first pretensioner, a second pretensioner, and a controller. The first unit determines a possible collision of an automobile in response to a manipulation of the automobile by... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7568542 | Occupant protection device An occupant protection device of the present invention has: a first motor which retracts a webbing of a driver seat; a second motor which retracts a webbing of a front passenger seat or a rear seat; a brake pedal sensor which detects movement of a brake pedal; and a... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7543675 | Method and apparatus for controlling seat position based on seatbelt usage A method of controlling the position of a front seat having an unbelted rearmost position forward of a belted rearmost position within a vehicle is provided. The method includes determining if a seatbelt associated with the front seat is fastened and allowing moveme... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7516808 | Seat belt retractor and seat belt apparatus The disclosed seat belt retractor and seat belt apparatus may be used to provide a technology effective for reducing the risk of making a vehicle occupant uncomfortable with regard to the seat belt winding action. A seat belt retractor and seat belt apparatus may co... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7510042 | Seat belt apparatus for vehicle In the seat belt apparatus of the invention, a belt retracting motor is operated so as to retract the seat belt by a predetermined amount when it is determined that the vehicle will roll over based on a lateral acceleration, a roll rate and a roll angle which are de... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7484585 | Vehicle occupant restraint apparatus A vehicle occupant restraint apparatus includes a controller for controlling a reversible occupant restraint so as to restrain an occupant when three conditions are met, i.e., a first condition that the steering angle of a steering wheel has exceeded a steering angl... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7469766 | 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 inboa... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7438150 | Seat belt apparatus A seat belt apparatus has a seat belt, a retracting device for the seat belt, a clash predicting means for outputting a clash predicting signal, a control unit for operating the retracting device when it receives the clash predicting signal, and a switching means fo... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7431119 | Seat belt retractor A seat belt retractor of a seat belt apparatus to be installed in a vehicle is structured such that when a vehicle door corresponding to a seat belt moves from the closed state to the open state, the seat belt retractor is configured to be in the power transmission ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428941 | Restraint system for a motor vehicle A restraint system for a vehicle having sensors for detecting a collision of the vehicle is described. The system has a control unit which analyzes the signals and, in the event of a recognized collision of the motor vehicle, transmits a first signal to a safety bel... | 09/30/2008 |
