Autoliv Development Ab

Thomas Moller

Jan Baumann

Helmut Mockel

Reinhard Flossel

Birte Wermann

A height-adjustable fastening system for a safety belt of a vehicle has a guide track and a slide slidably connected to the guide track and arrestable in various positions along the guide track. A fastening or guiding bracket is connected to the slide. A Bowden cable arrangement has a first end connected to the slide and a second end connected to a vehicle seat displaceable on a first and second seat tracks. The Bowden cable arrangement includes a sleeve and a cable pull displaceably guided within the sleeve. A stationary guide is positioned in the vicinity of the first seat track. The Bowden cable arrangement is guided about the stationary guide and the sleeve is connected to the stationary guide. The cable pull is connected with a first end to the vehicle seat at a fastening location remote from the stationary guide. The cable pull transmits a displacement movement of the vehicle seat onto the slide. The fastening location and the stationary guide are arranged such to one another that in a first end position of the vehicle seat the cable pull extends at a first angle of 90.degree. or less to the seat tracks and in a second end position of the vehicle seat extends at a second angle of 0.degree. or more to the seat tracks.

Height-adjustable safety belt fastening system coupled to the vehicle

A height-adjustable guide fitting for a seat belt of a motor vehicle has a rail member with a guide groove connected to the motor vehicle. The rail member has catch openings spaced at a distance from one another. A longitudinally slidable slide is positioned within the guide groove. A locking member is connected to the slide and in pivotable between a locked position and a release position. The locking member has a spring for biasing the locking member into the locked position and has a locking projection for engaging in the locked position a catch opening to thereby block the locking member relative to the rail member. A device for releasing the locking member is provided. The locking member has a lock lever pivotable between a position within the contour of the locking member and an outwardly pivoted engaging position for engaging one of the catch openings. A forced guiding system couples the lock lever to the slide such that a movement of the locking member relative to the slide upon displacement of the locking member from the locked position to the release position causes a pivoting of the lock lever relative to the locking member.

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Hamburg, Germany

Thomas Moller