Device for automatically adjusting and locking the height of a deflection fitting of a safety belt in vehicles

US4795191A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Klaus Pfeiffer · Heidenheim, DE
• Andreas Pieper · Werne, DE
• Hans Scholz · Esslingen am Neckar, DE
• Walter Jahn · Ehningen, DE
• Jurgen Gimbel · Gechingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 26, 1988
• Grant date: Jan 3, 1989
• Expiry date: Feb 26, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R22/205
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for automatically adjusting the height of the deflection fitting of a safety belt in vehicles having an anchoring element which carries the deflection fitting and is vertically displaceable in a guide rail firmly attached to the vehicle which includes an adjusting mechanism for displacing and holding the anchoring element in the vertical position set and has a locking device which is effective in the case of extreme vehicle deceleration to be connected to a vehicle deceleration sensor for locking the anchoring element in the guide rail by transverse displacement of a locking element, coupled to the anchoring element, due to the downward movement of the anchoring element caused by the deflection fitting.