Buckle switching device for safety belts

US7728239B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Rolf Prettl · DE

Inventors

• Peter Borst · Riedlingen, DE
• Dietmar Barth · Reutlingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 17, 2007
• Grant date: Jun 1, 2010
• Expiry date: Feb 1, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2022/4866
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Buckle switching device for a buckle for safety belts for the purpose of electrically detecting whether a belt tongue is locked in the buckle, where the buckle switching device is at least partly enveloped by a housing, and the buckle switching device has a conductor arrangement and a first detection device which can be influenced by means of the belt tongue for electrically detecting whether the belt tongue is locked, where the conductor arrangement has first contact regions for an electrical connection to the first detection device and second contact regions for an electrical connection to a second detection device which can be influenced by means of the belt tongue.