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Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 09, 2022
Applicant:

Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kenji Komori, Wako, JP;

Shinsuke Odai, Wako, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 22/195 (2006.01); G01S 13/72 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 22/1951 (2013.01); G01S 13/723 (2013.01);
Abstract

A vehicle seatbelt device according to an embodiment includes a seatbelt that restrains a part of the body of an occupant in a host vehicle, a tension adjustment mechanism that is able to adjust a tension of the seatbelt, a recognizer that recognizes situation in the vicinity of the host vehicle, an index value deriver that derives an index value indicating an overlapping degree between a predicted traveling trajectory of another vehicle which is recognized by the recognizer and approaches the host vehicle and a predicted traveling trajectory of the host vehicle, and a tension controller that controls an operation timing of the tension adjustment mechanism on the basis of the index value derived by the index value deriver and a degree of approach of the another vehicle with respect to the host vehicle.


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