Utility vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10093273-B2
Application number	US-201615393351-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 29, 2016
Priority date	Dec 29, 2016
Publication date	Oct 9, 2018
Grant date	Oct 9, 2018

Abstract

A utility vehicle includes a seat, a hip guard, and a seat belt which restrains an occupant to seat. The seat belt includes a belt, a tongue plate movably mounted on the belt, an anchor mounted on a distal end of the belt and rotatably mounted on a hip guard, a buckle on which the tongue plate is detachably mounted, and a retractor disposed substantially above the anchor and provided for winding the belt.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A utility vehicle comprising:
a seat having a seat cushion on which an occupant can be seated and a seat back on which the occupant can lean;
a hip guard configured to be disposed so as to be positioned outside a hip portion of the occupant when seated on the seat cushion in a vehicle width direction, the hip guard having a tongue-shaped anchor attachment portion extending downward from a lower portion of the hip guard;
a shoulder guard disposed above the hip guard and configured to be disposed so as to be positioned outside a breast portion or shoulder portion of the occupant when seated on the seat cushion in the vehicle width direction; and
a seat belt for restraining the occupant to the seat,
wherein the seat belt comprises:
a belt;
a tongue plate movably mounted on the belt;
an anchor mounted on a distal end of the belt and rotatably mounted on the tongue-shaped anchor attachment portion of the hip guard about a rotation axis extending in the vehicle width direction;
a buckle on which the tongue plate is detachably mounted; and
a retractor disposed substantially above the anchor for winding the belt, wherein the hip guard and the shoulder guard are formed of separate U-shaped pipes, respectively.

2. The utility vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the anchor of the seat belt is mounted on a seat-cushion-side portion of the tongue-shaped anchor attachment portion of the hip guard which opposedly faces the seat cushion with a distance therebetween in the vehicle width direction.

3. The utility vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the utility vehicle further includes a door disposed outside the seat in the vehicle width direction, and
a door striker for the door is mounted on an outer portion of the hip guard.

Assignees

• Kawasaki Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Tsumiyama Yoshinori
• Yamamoto Teruaki

Classifications

• B60R22/34

  Belt retractors, e.g. reels (anchoring devices {, e.g. guide loops} , with means to tension the belt in an emergency B60R22/195) · CPC title

• B60R2022/1806

  for buckles · CPC title

• B60R22/18 Primary

  Anchoring devices · CPC title

• B60N2/4249

  fixed structures, i.e. where neither the seat nor a part thereof are displaced during a crash · CPC title

• B60Y2200/20

  Off-Road Vehicles · CPC title