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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2000
Yutaka Yamaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiro Shiota, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiko Kawai, Tokyo, JP;
Tadayuki Asako, Tokyo, JP;
Takaaki Kimura, Tokyo, JP;
Takata Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a latched state of a buckle in which a tongue is engaged, an inertia lever member of a movement preventing device enters into a path of a lock pin. When the buckle is pulled by a buckle pretensioner in this state, the inertia lever member moves in the longitudinal direction, and pressed portions of the inertia lever member are held by a holding portion, so that the inertia lever member does not pivot and the levers are thus held in the path of the lock pin. At the end of pretensioning, the buckle is stopped. Since the moment produced by the inertia force acting on the center of gravity of mass body of the movement preventing device is larger than the moment produced by the inertia force of an operational button, the inertia lever member does not pivot, so that the inertia lever member can be held in the path of the lock pin. In the buckle, the inertia release can be effectively prevented with a simple structure.