JPH0419253A - Auxiliary device for fastening seat belt - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To pull out a seat belt to a position where the belt is easy to catch by mounting a rise and fall arm to a containing position for the seat belt, falling the arm toward the front side of a seat through an operation mechanism, and utilizing current movement of the tip part of the arm. CONSTITUTION:In riding on a car, an arm 10 is kept in rising orientation, and an operation knob 24 is disposed in a lower position being at the right of a seat part S1. When a driver seats, the operation knob is located in a range where a right hand is stretched out in a very natural posture. By pulling the operation knob 24, the arm 10 falls forward centering around a center pin 14a through a wire 23. As a result, the middle part of a seat belt B is pulled out to a front by means of a tip part 11 of the arm. A driver very easily grasps a tang plate B3 and looses a hold of the operation knob 24 in a right hand and inserts the tang plate B3 into a lock buckle B6. When the arm 10 falls forward, since a tension spring attached as an energizing member 15 is stretched, the arm 10 is restored to original rise orientation through release of the operation knob 24.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] Industrial Application Field This invention eliminates the trouble of putting on a three-point seatbelt when a vehicle occupant puts on the seatbelt by pulling the seatbelt forward from the storage position diagonally at the rear. The present invention relates to a seatbelt attachment assisting device that can be used to attach a seatbelt.

Prior Art Front seat occupants of automobiles are required to wear seat belts.

The generally popular three-point seat belt is designed to automatically return to the stowed position using a retractor mechanism when not in use. Further, the seat belt is stored at a center pillar position between the front seat and the carrier seat of the vehicle so as not to interfere with getting on and off the vehicle, and the seat belt is stored along the center pillar. This center pillar is also used in 4-door passenger cars.
In a passenger car with a door, it is also located diagonally behind the seatback of the front seat, and especially in a two-door passenger car, because the door size is wide, it is located quite far back. Depending on the type of vehicle, this position may be in the blind spot of the headrest and cannot be seen even when turning around, making pulling the seatbelt forward an extremely troublesome task of groping.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention Therefore, in view of the actual state of the prior art, an object of the present invention is to attach a foldable arm to the seat belt storage position, and to move this arm to the front side of the seat via an operating mechanism. To provide a seatbelt wearing assisting device that can be folded down and pulled out to an easy-to-take position by utilizing the movement of the tip of the arm at this time.

Means for Solving the Problems The present invention has an arm that is attached to the rear of the seat belt in the stowed position so that it can be raised and folded, and is mechanically connected to the arm so that the arm can be tilted forward. It is equipped with an operating mechanism and a biasing member that returns the arm to an upright position, and its gist is to pull out the seatbelt from the storage position by tilting the arm forward.

Note that the operating mechanism can be operated by disposing an operating knob near the front seat and pulling it by hand.

Further, the operating mechanism may be operated by disposing an operating pedal in front of the front seat and pushing it with a foot.

According to this configuration, the arm is attached so as to be able to be raised and lowered, and is mechanically connected to the operating mechanism that tilts the arm forward, so that it can be tilted forward via the operating mechanism.

The arm is attached to the rear of the seat belt,
Further, the arm is provided with a biasing member for returning the arm to an upright position. Therefore, the arm pulls the seatbelt forward by the action of falling forward,
The occupant can easily take off the seat belt that has been pulled out. When the operating mechanism is released, the arm that has fallen forward is returned to the upright position by the biasing member.

If the operating knob or operating pedal of the operating mechanism is placed near or in front of the front seat, the occupant can operate the arm by pulling it with his hand or pushing it with his foot while maintaining his natural sitting posture. It is possible to operate.

Example Examples will be described below with reference to the drawings.

The seatbelt attachment assisting device includes an arm 10 and an operating mechanism 20 as main members (FIG. 1).

The arm 10 is attached in an upright position along a center pillar C1 located diagonally rearward of a seat back S2 of a front seat S of a vehicle C. However, the illustrated front seat S is located on the driver's seat side, which is located on the right side of the vehicle C.

The arm 10 includes a tip 11, an arm 12, and a base 13, and the end of the base 13 is swingably attached around a center pin 14a via a spacer 14. Therefore, the entire arm 10 can be raised and lowered about the center pin 14a. The arm portion 12 has a length that reaches below the intermediate buckle B2 disposed at the upper part of the center pillar 01, and the tip portion 11 is formed to have a flat front end.

The operating mechanism 20 includes a wire 23 that can be pulled and operated between an adapter 21 and a presser metal fitting 22. Note that the adapter 21 is disposed on the right side of the seat portion S1 of the front seat S, and the presser metal fitting 22 is fixed below the base portion 13 of the arm 10.

Further, the end of the wire 23 on the adapter 21 side is connected to the operating knob 24, and the end on the presser metal fitting 22 side is attached to a connecting metal fitting 23a.

The adapter 21 is a metal fitting for attaching the operating knob 24 at a fixed height position from the floor F of the vehicle C, and can be fixed to any location on the floor F using a tapping screw or the like. On the other hand, the presser metal fitting 22 positions the end of the wire 23, and the connecting metal fitting 23a of the wire 23 is connected to the lower end of the base 13 of the arm 10 near the front seat S. Further, on the opposite side of the base 13, a biasing member 15 made of a tension spring is attached, and by pulling the arm 10 backward, the arm 10 is maintained in its upright position.

The seat belt B is attached to the vehicle body C2 via the intermediate buckle B2.
By fixing both ends to the tractor B5 and the fixed buckle B4 near the floor F of the vehicle body C2, and pulling the intermediate part near the intermediate buckle B2 forward, the required amount of seat belt B is pulled out from the retractor B5. supply. In addition, after pulling the seat belt B forward,
It is a three-point type in which the tongue plate B3 attached to the intermediate portion is moved to an arbitrary position if, and this is inserted into the fastening buckle B6 located on the left side of the front seat S to fasten it. When the arm 10 is in an upright state, the seat belt B is placed over the front end 11 of the arm 10 from the front side. Note that the tongue plate B3 is located below the tip portion 11 in this state.

Such a seatbelt fastening assist device can be operated in a natural sitting posture.

When riding, the arm 10 maintains an upright position along the center pillar C1, and the operation knob 24 is provided at a lower position than the seat S1 of the seat S.
The occupant can sit on the front seat S without any hindrance.

The operation knob 24 is arranged on the right side of the seat portion 31,
When seated, the pole (within the range where you can extend your right hand in a natural posture).By pulling the operation knob 24,
The arm 10 falls diagonally forward of the seat back S2 (
(double-dashed line in Figures 1 and 2). That is, the operation knob 24
The movement of is transmitted to the base 13 of the arm 10 via the wire 23, and the wire 23 is connected to the lower end of the base 13 closer to the front seat S than the center pin 14a via the connecting fitting 23a, and moves this part downward. Since the arm 10 is pulled, the arm 10 falls forward about the center pin 14a. When the arm 10 falls forward, the intermediate portion of the seat bell 1-B is pulled forward by the tip 11 of the arm 10. In addition, here, retractor B5
The seat bell 1-B is being supplied.

Since the tip 11 of the arm 10 that has fallen forward has moved to the right front of the occupant in the seated position, the occupant can very easily grasp the tongue plate B8 with his left hand, and then use his right hand to grasp the tongue plate B8. The user can release the operating knob 24 and use both hands freely to insert the tongue plate B3 into the fastening buckle B6 to complete the wearing of the seat belt B.

When the arm 10 falls forward, the tension spring attached as the biasing member 15 is expanded (FIG. 3). Therefore, the biasing member 15 releases the operation knob 24 and the wire 2
3, the arm 10 contracts and returns to its original standing position (double-dashed line in the figure).

In another embodiment of the operation mechanism 20, an operation pedal 27 can be disposed on the floor F in front of the front seat S and operated with the foot (FIGS. 4 and 5). This operating mechanism 20 includes a movable slider 26 inside a case 25, and transmits the movement of the slider 26 to the arm 10 via a wire 23, thereby tilting the arm 10 forward.

The case 25 connects the arm 10 from the front of the front seat S.
Seat part S of the front sea)
It is fixed on the floor F on the right side of 1 (Fig. 4). A slider 26 is slidably housed at the front end of the case 25, while a pulley 28 is provided at the rear end of the case 25.

An operating pedal 27 is attached to the slider 26 via a bracket 26a, and the occupant can press the operating pedal 27 with his right foot while maintaining a very natural sitting posture. Further, the wire 23 has one end connected to the slider 26,
The other end passes through the inside of the case 25, changes direction upward by a pulley 28, and is connected to the arm 10. It is possible to operate the arm 10 with the foot that is easy to apply force, and since one hand is not taken away from operating the arm 10, the user can freely use both hands to fasten the seat belt B, which is extremely convenient. . Note that the length of the case 25 can be adjusted depending on the type of vehicle.

A compression spring may be used as the biasing member 15, thereby returning the arm 10 that has fallen forward to the upright position (FIG. 6). The compression spring is attached to the holding fitting 22 of the wire 23.
The wire 23 is inserted between the wire 23 and the connecting fitting 23a, and is compressed by pulling the wire 23. When the wire 23 is released, the arm 10 is pushed back through the connecting fitting 23a. Processing for attaching the biasing member 15 to the vehicle body C2 can be omitted.

The arm 10 can be assembled into a unit by being assembled to the base plate 16 (FIG. 7). The base plate 16 is a plate material in which a fixing piece 16b of the wire 23 is bent at the lower end and screw holes 16a, 16a, . . . are provided for attachment. 14 and a center pin], 4a. A biasing member 15 is wound around the outer periphery of the spacer 14, and one end of the biasing member 15 is hooked to the base 13 of the arm 10, and the other end is hooked to the base plate 16. However, as this biasing member 15, a coil spring that biases the arm 10 rearward is used. One end of the wire 23 passes through the fixed piece 16b and is connected to the front end of the lower end of the base 13. The base plate 16 also includes stoppers 17 and 17.
is provided protrudingly, and the arm 10 abuts each stopper 17 in its standing posture (solid line in FIG. 7) and operating posture (double-dashed line in the same figure), and the stoppers 17.17
The range of raising and lowering is regulated. The attachment of the wire 23, the arm 10, and the biasing member 15 can be completed only by fixing the base plate 16 to the vehicle body C2.

The operating knob 24 can be attached to any location near the front seat S in any direction as long as it can be operated in a seated position (FIG. 8). wire 23
Since it is easy to handle, it is not restricted to the position of the operating knob 24. For example, if it is attached to the roof C3 and pulled downward, it can be easily operated using the weight of the occupant. Further, it may be installed in front of the seat portion S1 or on any left or right side in a direction that is easy to operate.

Note that the force required to tilt the arm 10 depends on the length of the arm portion 12 of the arm 10 and the strength of the biasing member 15, as well as on the arm 10.
The distance d varies depending on the distance d from the rotation center of 0 to the connection position of the wire 23 (for example, FIG. 6). Therefore, by adjusting these relationships, appropriate operating force can be achieved.

In the above description, the wire 23 is used as the operating mechanism 20, but it goes without saying that other elements may be used as the wire 23. The operating mechanism 20 may also be of another type that does not use a bare body, for example, by connecting rods to the arm 10.
It is also possible to draw a subtraction line.

As described in detail, according to the present invention, the arm is attached to the rear of the seat belt so as to be freely raised and folded, and the arm and the operating mechanism are mechanically connected to each other, so that the arm can be operated via the operating mechanism. It can be pulled forward, and at this time, the arm pulls the seatbelt forward from its storage position, eliminating the troublesome work of groping forward to pull the seatbelt located at the rear and allowing the user to put on the seatbelt. It has the excellent effect of being able to wipe out the troublesome things that come with it.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

1 to 3 show an embodiment, FIG. 1 is a side view of the installation state, FIG. 2 is a plan view of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a view of the operation of the arm. 4 and 5 show other embodiments, FIG. 4 is a view corresponding to FIG. 1, and FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along the line X--X in FIG. 4. 6 to 8 show different embodiments, and FIGS. 6 and 7 are views corresponding to FIG. 3, and FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating the mounting position of the operating knob. B...Seat belt S...Front seat 10...Arm 15...Biasing member 20...Operation mechanism

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1) An arm that is attached to the rear of the seat belt in the stowed position so that it can be raised and lowered, an operating mechanism that is mechanically connected to the arm and tilts the arm forward, and a mechanism that returns the arm to an upright position. 1. A seatbelt attachment assisting device, comprising: a biasing member, wherein the arm is folded forward to pull out the seatbelt from the storage position. 2) The seatbelt fastening assistance device according to claim 1, wherein the operating mechanism includes an operating knob disposed near the front seat and is operated by pulling it by hand. 3) The seatbelt fastening assist device according to claim 1, wherein the operating mechanism includes an operating pedal disposed in front of the front seat, and is operated by pushing with a foot.