Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Thomas Tilly

Lloyd W Rogers

Steven G Corrion

Gregory S Ches

Damond N Hinatsu

Leslie A Sajovec

Carol C Hathaway

Thomas M DiMambro

Alfred A Jefferson

Mark A Rychlicki

A seat assembly includes a seat of a vehicle, a safety belt, and a guide assembly. The seat includes a seat back and an attachment feature that is operatively connected to the seat back. The safety belt includes webbing that is configured to extend in a generally diagonal direction across the seat back. The guide assembly includes a clip, a cord, an attachment mechanism, and a breakaway mechanism. The clip is configured for operative attachment to the webbing of the safety belt. The cord operatively extends from the clip. The attachment mechanism is operatively connected to the cord. The attachment mechanism is configured for selective attachment to the attachment feature of the seat back. The breakaway mechanism operatively interconnects the cord and the clip and is configured to separate such that the cord pulls free from the clip upon the application of a force to the clip or the cord.

Guide assembly for a safety belt

A seat belt anchoring system for a vehicle seat includes an anchor for seat belt webbing having a mounting portion positionable with respect to the seat to face rearward and rigidly securable with respect to the seat from behind the seat. The anchor also has a belt retaining portion angled with respect to the mounting portion so that it is operatively connectable with the seat belt webbing outboard of the seat. A method of installing a seat belt system is also provided.

Seat belt anchoring system and method of installing a seat belt system

A vehicle seat is mounted on the vehicle floor by a seat adjusting mechanism permitting fore and aft adjusting movement of the seat. A channel member is connected to the vehicle floor behind the seat and extends forwardly along the path of longitudinal seat adjustment movement. The channel member has opposed facing walls which are slidably engaged by a pair of wedge members having associated ramp surfaces. A seat belt is connected to the rearward one of the wedge members so that an occupant restraint load imposed upon the seat belt induces longitudinal forward movement of the rearward wedge member into locking engagement with the forward wedge member and the walls of the channel member so that the seat belt is fixed relative to the channel member and the occupant restraint load is transmitted through the channel member to the vehicle floor. A lost motion connection selectively and alternately connects the seat with the forward wedge member upon forward seat adjusting movement and with the rearward wedge upon rearward seat adjusting movement to establish the wedge members in non-locking positions relative the channel member and thereby enable longitudinal adjusting movement of the wedge member and the seat belt with the seat so that the seat belt is always carried at a certain position relative to the vehicle seat notwithstanding adjustment of the seat relative to the vehicle floor.

Anchorage for a seat mounted seat belt

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Algonac, MI, United States of America

Thomas Tilly