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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2019
Subaru Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Chihiro Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Masaaki Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Tsuyoshi Nomura, Tokyo, JP;
Noriaki Saito, Tokyo, JP;
Takeru Shoji, Tokyo, JP;
Keiko Sonoda, Tokyo, JP;
SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An occupant protection device including a seat belt that includes a shoulder belt and a lap belt, a locking tongue that is capable of switching between an unlock state and a lock state, a shoulder-belt puller that is capable of pulling the shoulder belt, a lap-belt puller that is capable of pulling the lap belt, a side-collision detector that detects a side collision or a precursor thereof, and a control unit that changes a state of the locking tongue into the lock state and a state of the lap-belt puller into a first pulling state in which the lap-belt puller pulls the lap belt and that subsequently changes a state of the shoulder-belt puller into a second pulling state in which the shoulder-belt puller pulls the shoulder belt when the side-collision detector detects the side collision that occurs opposite an occupant or the precursor thereof.