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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 27, 1994
Eiji Koketsu, Aichi-ken, JP;
Koki Sato, Aichi-ken, JP;
Tetsushi Muromachi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Mutsumu Haraoka, Aichi-ken, JP;
Toshio Nagata, Aichi-ken, JP;
Michihiro Yanagihara, Aichi-ken, JP;
Kuniaki Oma, Aichi-ken, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Seisakusho, Aichi-ken, JP;
Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
A webbing for restraining a vehicle occupant, having a webbing length increasing device which is folded over and sewn together along a transverse direction of the webbing, and when a load applied between a vehicle occupant and the webbing length increasing device exceeds a sewing strength of the webbing length increasing device, stitching of the webbing length increasing device comes undone, the webbing length increasing device having at least a first sewn-together portion and a second sewn-together portion, the second sewn-together portion being provided at a webbing fold tip end side of the first sewn-together portion and having a sewing strength which is smaller than a sewing strength of the first sewn-together portion. Load applied between the vehicle occupant and the webbing, when a length of the webbing is increased at a time of sudden deceleration of a vehicle, is reduced gradually.