Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki

Noritada Yoshitsugu

Mitsuaki Katsuno

Motonobu Sugiura

Masanao Motonami

Yutaka Matsuzaki

Yuji Nishimura

Kenji Matsui

Hiroshi Kishi

Takashi Kawaharazaki

Keiichi Tamura

Hiroshi Tsuge

Akinori Fujiwara

Hiroshi Yamauchi

Ichiro Suzuki

Masakazu Hashimoto

Jun Yasumatsu

Katsuki Asagiri

Yoshio Tsujiuchi

Hideki Tanaka

Yasutaka Watanabe

Makoto Yamada

Toshio Gyoda

Nobuyuki Ryu

Atsuo Ando

Kunihiro Hurumoto

A control apparatus for input screens includes a display unit, a switch portion and a control unit including a microcomputer. If one of a menu switch of the switch portion and a plurality of dummy switches included in a screen displayed by the display unit is operated, the microcomputer causes the display unit to display a new screen including a plurality of dummy switches. The microcomputer estimates a time period required for the operator to watch a screen to operate the dummy switch, depending on the displayed screen (the number of dummy switches). If the sum of estimated time periods exceeds a reference time period, the microcomputer nullifies operation of the dummy switch to prevent the screen from being switched. After the lapse of a predetermined time period, the microcomputer cancels the nullification of the operation of the dummy switch.

Control apparatus and method for input screens

An apparatus for driving an intermediate portion of a webbing for use in a seatbelt system for restraining an occupant of a vehicle by means of a webbing having one end accommodated in a webbing accommodating device through a biasing force is arranged to withdraw the webbing from the accommodating device in opposition to the biasing force. Accordingly, when an occupant is to apply the webbing to himself by withdrawing it from the accommodating device, the webbing can be withdrawn and applied with a small manual force.

Apparatus for driving an intermediate portion of webbing

Disclosed is an automatic seatbelt apparatus which is capable of automatically applying, or canceling the application of, a webbing around an occupant of a vehicle, wherein a limit switch for detecting that a slider, which guides the webbing along a guide rail between a stopping position on the forward side and a stopping position on the rearward side of the vehicle, has arrived at the stopping position on the forward side of the vehicle is disposed in such a manner as not to hamper any further movement of the slider toward the front of the vehicle. Accordingly, the stopping position of the slider on the rearward side of the vehicle can be changed regardless of the stopping position at which the slider is located.

Automatic seatbelt apparatus

An automatic seat belt apparatus capable of automatically applying a webbing around an occupant of a vehicle. This seat belt apparatus has a reinforcement member which is disposed near the end of a guide rail along which a slider is guided, the slider being accommodated in the reinforcement at the stroke end. The apparatus also has a holder at which a limit switch for detecting the stroke end of the slider is attached and which covers the reinforcement member, and an anchor pin for supporting a load caused at the time of an emergency, the holder and the anchor pin encircling the reinforcement member. The position of the anchor pin varies in accordance with the adjustment of the stroke end of the slider so as to constantly correspond to that of the slider while the webbing is being fitted around the occupant's body. At the time of an emergency, the tensile force of the webbing is positively transmitted to the body of the vehicle via the anchor pin, the holder and the reinforcement member.

Automatic seat belt apparatus

A seatbelt assembly for automatically releasing a vehicle occupant from the restraint of a seatbelt or plurality of belts. The seatbelt assembly includes a first restraining webbing, a second restraining webbing, a buckle, a retractor and a sensor. The first restraining webbing automatically fastens an occupant to a seat in a vehicle, and the first restraining webbing is positioned at one of first and second positions. The second restraining webbing is manually operated to fasten an occupant to the seat. The buckle is located at a first side of the seat and the second restraining webbing selectively engages the buckle. The buckle includes a locking plate and an actuator, and the actuator disengages the second restraining webbing from the locking plate. The retractor winds the second restraining webbing, and the retractor is located at a second side of the seat. Accordingly, when the second restraining webbing engages the buckle an occupant on the seat is restrained by the second restraining webbing, and when the first restraining webbing is positioned at the second position and the second restraining webbing and the buckle are disengaged, an occupant on the seat is released from the restraint of the first and second restraining webbings. Sensors and the ECU are provided to determine when the occupant is getting out of the vehicle, and for providing a signal to the actuator so as to release the occupant from the restraint of the seatbelts.

Seatbelt assembly

A webbing guide for use with a seat belt apparatus having a length of webbing which has shoulder and lap webbing portions and an end portion adapted to be wound onto a reel device. The webbing guide is disposed on and at the side of a seat back of a seat for a passenger to sit on and has a guide hole for inserting therethrough the shoulder webbing portion. The guide hole is in the form of a continuous slot and has a crank-shaped outline. The shoulder webbing portion is thus kept from becoming twisted or reversed in the guide hole.

Webbing guide for use with seat belt apparatus

A guide rail for a seat belt device comprising a slider slidably movably provided in a slot of the guide rail installed on a roof side and a webbing mounted at the end thereof on the slider for restricting an occupant, and the guide rail is so installed on the roof side that the slot of said guide rail is inclined toward the outside of a compartment from the extending direction of the roof side. Thus, the guide rail can reduce the possibility of the webbing to contact an occupant's face even when the slider passes the guide rail of a roof side.

Guide rail for seat belt device

This invention relates to an automatically fastening seatbelt assembly which causes an occupant of a vehicle to be automatically held to a seat in the vehicle by a restraining webbing, after the occupant is positioned on the seat in the vehicle. The seatbelt assembly includes a guide rail, a slider and adjustment device. The guide rail includes a longitudinal groove therein, and the guide rail is mounted on a vehicle body. The slider is displaceable along the longitudinal groove of the guide rail and a restraining webbing is fastened at one end thereof to the slider. The adjustment device includes a stop member and the adjustment device is slidably mounted on the guide rail. The stop member is displaceable with the adjustment device along the guide rail and the adjustment means is adapted to be selectively position and locked at one of a plurality of anchor positions. The stop member crosses a path of the slider along the guide rail. The slider is displaceable along the guide rail between a front end of the guide rail and the stop member. Accordingly, when the adjustment device is positioned at one of the plurality of anchor position the stop member prevents the slider from being displaced over the stop member.

A child passenger securing apparatus for use in a vehicle includes a body which has a seat portion and a backrest portion and which defines a hollow portion extending from the seat portion to the backrest portion. A portion of a webbing unwound from a retractor secured within the hollow portion of the seat portion is passed through the hollow portion and led out from a lead-out portion provided in the backrest portion so that a child passenger is fastened by this portion of the webbing. Accordingly, the webbing is prevented from contacting a seat for an adult passenger on which the apparatus is mounted, so that the webbing moves smoothly when it is unwound and rewound.

Child passenger securing apparatus for use in vehicle

A child passenger securing apparatus includes an apparatus body which is provided with a child passenger restraining webbing. One end of the webbing is led into the inside of the body, passed through a through-hole provided in a fixed plate, passed over an engaging portion of a lock plate and then turned up in such a manner that its direction is reversed, and is then passed through the through-hole again in the opposite direction. Accordingly, the fixed and lock plates are disposed below the seat portion of the apparatus body, and this allows the surface of the seat portion to be flattened. Since the lock plate is slidable along the fixed plate, the tension which acts on the webbing causes the lock plate to slide relative to the fixed plate so as to clamp an intermediate portion of the webbing, and the webbing tension is thereby reliably born.

Child passenger securing apparatus

A webbing retaining structure is employed in an automatic seatbelt system for a vehicle which is so designed that one end portion of a webbing which is closer to the outside of the vehicle is moved in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and the webbing is thereby automatically fastened to the body of an occupant. A first member which retains the end portion of the webbing is pivotally supported by a second member which is mounted on the vehicle body. A combination of a projection and recesses in which it is selectively fitted is provided between the first and second members. The angle at which the webbing is retained by the vehicle body can be adjusted by changing the position of combination between the projection and the recesses.

Webbing retaining structure

An adjusting mechanism is provided for an automatically fastening seatbelt assembly which causes an occupant of a vehicle to be automatically held to a seat in the vehicle by restraining webbing after the occupant is positioned in the seat in the vehicle. The seatbelt assembly includes a guide rail, a slider which is displaceable along the guide rail and a restraining webbing which is fixed to the slider at one end thereof by an anchor plate. The adjusting mechanism allows adjustment of the position of an anchor plate in relation to the slider. The anchor plate is mounted pivotally to the slider by an anchor pin and a spring. The spring is located between the anchor plate and the slider and is fixed to either the anchor plate or the slider. Either the slider or the anchor plate (whichever the spring is not fixed to) has a plurality of adjusting holes. An engagement member on the spring selectively engages the plurality of adjusting holes. This engagement prevents pivotal movement of the anchor plate about the anchor pin, so that the anchor plate can be fixed at suitable positions to fit the restraining webbing to various size occupants. Furthermore, either the slider or the anchor plate includes block members which prevent the anchor plate from pivoting beyond the suitable positions for restraining occupants by the restraining webbing.

Automatically fastening seatbelt assembly

This invention relates to an automatically fastening assembly which causes an occupant of a vehicle to be automatically held to a seat in the vehicle by a restraining webbing after the occupant is positioned upon the seat in the vehicle. The seatbelt assembly includes a guide rail, a slider which is displaceable along the guide rail and a restraining webbing which is fixed to the slider at one end thereof. The guide rail is provided with stop switches at each end thereof, the stop switches being connected to a source of electricity or an electric control circuit through connecting wires. Further, the stop switches detect the arrival of the slider at either end of the guide rail and output signals to the electric control circuit. More particularly, the present invention relates to improvements for fastening the connecting wires to the guide rail prior to installing the guide rail on the vehicle body, by utilizing a fastening device. The fastening device obviates the installation problems encountered with known devices.

A seatbelt system includes a webbing which has one end thereof attached to a door of a vehicle and is automatically fastened to an occupant of the vehicle in response to the action of opening and closing the door. The webbing tension is decreased when the door is opened, whereby it is possible to reduce the resistance due to the webbing tension encountered when the door is opened. Further, when the door is closed, the webbing tension is increased, thereby bringing the webbing into close contact with the occupant.

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Toyota, Japan

Noritada Yoshitsugu