Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho K.k.

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Arakawa Shatai Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Shiro Sasaki

Jun Yasumatsu

Mitsuo Inukai

Mamoru Mori

Makoto Yamada

Kazuhisa Tatematsu

Eiichi Kinaga

Koji Kawamatsu

Shigenori Kanazawa

Tokuji Kondo

Kinsho Fukuta

Sadao Hachisuka

Yoshihiro Hayashi

In combination with a seat track structure including a movable track slidable on a stationary track, a handle shaft rotatably supported on the movable track, a lock plate secured to the stationary track, and a detent lever secured to the hand shaft and being loaded to engage the lock plate at a selected position, a walk-in mechanism includes a release lever rotatable on the handle shaft and being provided with an upward projection and a lateral projection, and a resilient plate having one end secured on the movable track, an intermediate portion provided with a downward projection and a flexible end portion formed with an opening to receive the upward projection of the release lever. The release lever is loaded toward a first position in which the projections of the release lever are respectively disengaged from the resilient plate and the detent lever and is connected to the back rest of a front seat in such a manner that when the back rest is tilted forwardly, the release lever is rotated to a second position in which the projections of the release lever are respectively engaged with the opening of the resilient plate and the detent lever to disengage the detent lever from the lock plate and maintian it in a disengaged position.

Walk-in mechanism associated with seat track structure

A vehicle seat adjusting means for differentiating the seat height value at longitudinal points of a seat to compensate for differing passenger physiques. The apparatus comprises a handle which is manually actuated and operatively connected to an input shaft of an anti-back drive coupling and linkage means which are located at the front and rear portions of the seat. The effective length of the rear link is adapted to be longer than that of the front link in order to lift the rear portion of seat more than the front portion.

Manual seat adjuster

A seatbelt system wherein the proximal ends of a lap webbing and a shoulder webbing are wound up doubly by a single take-up shaft, the forward portions of said webbings are connected to each other, and the connected portion of the webbings is inserted through an insertion opening of a tongue plate engageable with a buckle for installation of the webbings, said connected portion being provided with a pair of stoppers limiting the movement of the tongue plate and forcedly winding out the webbing wound outside of the other webbing for preventing the webbing wound outside from loosening in a retractor case.

Seatbelt system

A seat belt retractor of the type for winding up two restraining seat belts on a single retractor shaft one over the other including a base, a retractor shaft rotatably supported by the base for winding up the two seat belts during retraction, a means for applying a retracting force to the retractor shaft and a means for applying a bending force to at least one of the two belts which is smaller in magnitude than the retracting force whereby slack is prevented from occurring in the retractor when the belts are wound out.

Passenger restraining seat belt retractor

A passenger restraining belt retractor for winding up two restraining belts on a single retractor shaft of retractor one over the other including a base, a retractor shaft rotatably supported by the base for winding up the two belts thereon, a bail roller pressed by a bias means against the unrolled portions of the restraining belts which are wound up on the retractor shaft.

Passenger restraining belt retractor

A tongue plate for a seat belt device in which a roller is rotatably provided in a slot in a tongue plate through which a seat belt webbing passes so that the seat belt does not press or tighten the passenger's body, when the passenger moves his body while wearing the seat belt.

Tongue plate for seat belt device

A webbing guide for use with a three-point seat belt comprising a lug member mounted to a rear side end portion of a seat so as to hold a tongue plate provided at an intermediate mounting portion of the webbing of the seat belt when the seat belt is not used and to guide one end of a lap belt portion of the seat belt when it is worn by a man sitting on the seat.

Webbing guide for a seat belt

Retractors for shoulder belts and retractors for lap belts which are transversly positioned, relative to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle. One of said retractors is housed in a side member at the bottom of the vehicle, thereby facilitating occupants getting in and out of the vehicle. At the same time, this arrangement increases the degree of freedom in the anchorage location of the retractors in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.

Arrangement of a seat belt taking-up device

A lap belt take-up shaft for a seat belt retractor is arranged horizontally and substantially orthogonally to the traveling direction of a vehicle, whereby damage to the lap belt due to the drawing-out and rolling-in thereof is prevented and whereby a Vehicle Inertia Sensitive type emergency engagement device can be installed so as to demonstrate its function perfectly.

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Shiro Sasaki