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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2004
Charles E. Benedict, Tallahassee, FL (US);
Charles E. Benedict, Tallahassee, FL (US);
Other;
Abstract
Body restraint systems for vehicles that include buckles for latching and retaining latch plates associated with safety belts. The buckle of each system includes a pair of oppositely biased latching mechanisms that are operative in such a manner that an inertial force applied to release one latching mechanism from a latch plate inserted within the buckle creates an opposite and equal force against the opposite latching mechanism to thereby positively retain the latch plate within the buckle in a locked position. Release of a latch plate can only occur upon the simultaneous movement of both of the oppositely biased latching mechanisms away from one another by application of manual force on a slide release member.