Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Kazuyoshi Kato

Tatsushi Kubota

Chikao Nagasaka

Mitsuaki Katsuno

Mitsuo Inukai

Motonobu Sugiura

Toshio Gyoda

A seat for use in a vehicle equipped with an automatic seatbelt system includes a seat cushion for supporting the buttocks of an occupant. The seat cushion is provided with a passage for a webbing of the seatbelt system. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent the contact between the webbing and the seat cushion when the webbing is wound up into and unwound from a webbing retractor.

Seat for vehicle

A construction of a door glass guide in a motor vehicle includes a door frame in a door of the motor vehicle; a buckle assist secured to the door frame and detachably connected to a tongue plate of a seat belt; a door glass run provided in a guide portion of the door frame, with a main body of the door glass run facing an end edge of a door glass and with lips extending from the main body of the door glass run and being in slidable contact with glass surfaces at the end edge of the door glass, for guiding the door glass in a direction of opening or closing the door glass; and a wire harness disposed in the guide portion in the longitudinal direction of the door glass run and connected to a device for providing a signal when the tongue plate and the buckle assist are unlatched. A wire harness holding portion for holding the wire harness is provided on a surface of the main body of the door glass run which is opposed to the guide portion. The wire harness holding portion includes a pair of clamp pieces for clamping the wire harness, or an expanded portion with a wire harness insertion hole formed therein.

Construction of door glass guide in motor vehicle

A webbing intermediate portion retaining apparatus for use in an automatic seatbelt system for a vehicle arranged such that, when an occupant enters the vehicle, an occupant restraining webbing is automatically fastened to the occupant's body, whereas, when the occupant leaves the vehicle, the webbing is automatically unfastened from his body. The apparatus enables the intermediate portion of the webbing to be retained by a hook provided on a door of the vehicle when the occupant leaves the vehicle. The apparatus effects control such that, when the occupant is going to leave the vehicle, the hook is moved to a position for retaining the intermediate portion of the webbing, whereas, after the occupant has entered the vehicle, the hook is moved to a position for canceling the retaining of the intermediate portion of the webbing. Accordingly, when the occupant enters and leaves the vehicle, it is possible to ensure a sufficient space for him to move smoothly.

Apparatus for retaining intermediate portion of webbing

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Aichi, Japan

Kazuyoshi Kato