Webbing retractor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11007975-B2
Application number	US-201816634293-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 22, 2018
Priority date	Aug 3, 2017
Publication date	May 18, 2021
Grant date	May 18, 2021

Abstract

In a webbing retractor, due to a moving member being moved toward an axial direction distal end side, and first teeth and second teeth of a rotating member piercing the moving member, the rotating member is rotated in a take-up direction. Here, at the moving member, a sectional surface area, in a direction orthogonal to an axis, of a small diameter portion that is at an axial direction distal end side is made to be small as compared with a moving member main body that is at an axial direction proximal end side. Therefore, resistance to movement of the moving member can be reduced.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A webbing retractor comprising:
a spool that is rotated in a take-up direction, and on which a webbing of a seatbelt device is taken up;
a rotating member at which a bite-in portion is provided, and that is rotated toward one side such that the spool is rotated in the take-up direction;
a moving member that, by being moved toward an axial direction distal end side and the bite-in portion biting thereinto, rotates the rotating member toward the one side; and
a pierced portion that is provided at the moving member, the bite-in portion piercing an axial direction distal end side portion of the pierced portion and an axial direction proximal end side portion of the pierced portion such that the rotating member is rotated toward the one side, and the axial direction distal end side portion of the pierced portion being made to be small as compared with the axial direction proximal end side portion of the pierced portion in an entire circumference direction of the pierced portion such that a sectional surface area, in a direction orthogonal to an axis of the pierced portion, of the axial direction distal end side portion of the pierced portion is made to be small as compared with an axial direction proximal end side portion.

2. The webbing retractor of claim 1 , comprising a narrow portion that is provided at the axial direction distal end portion of the moving member, and whose sectional surface area, in a direction orthogonal to an axis, is made to be small as compared with the axial direction proximal end side portion of the moving member, and a side surface of the narrow portion running along an axial direction of the moving member.

3. The webbing retractor of claim 1 , comprising a narrow portion that is provided at the axial direction distal end portion of the moving member, and at which are provided a first portion, whose sectional surface area, in a direction orthogonal to the axis, is made to be small as compared with the axial direction proximal end side portion of the moving member, and, at an axial direction distal end side of the first portion, a second portion whose sectional surface area, in a direction orthogonal to the axis, is made to be small as compared with the first portion.

4. The webbing retractor of claim 2 , wherein the narrow portion collides with a plurality of the bite-in portions.

5. The webbing retractor of claim 2 , comprising a pair of facing portions that are provided at the rotating member so as to face one another, the bite-in portion being disposed between the pair of facing portions, and the narrow portion being disposed between the pair of facing portions before the moving member is moved toward the axial direction distal end side.

6. The webbing retractor of claim 2 , wherein a cross-section, in the direction orthogonal to the axis, of the narrow portion is made to be a shape that has at least one of point symmetry or line symmetry.

7. The webbing retractor of claim 1 , comprising a pair of facing portions that are provided at the rotating member so as to face one another, and between which the bite-in portion is disposed, and before the moving member is moved toward the axial direction distal end side, the axial direction proximal end side portion of the pierced portion being made to be a dimension so as to fit together therebetween and the axial direction distal end side portion of the pierced portion being made to be a dimension so as not to fit together therebetween.

8. The webbing retractor of claim 7 , wherein, even if the rotating member is displaced before the moving member is moved toward the axial direction distal end side, separation between the axial direction distal end side portion of the pierced portion and the pair of facing portions is maintained.

9. The webbing retractor of claim 1 , comprising a guiding member that can guide the moving member to the rotating member side, and before the moving member is moved toward the axial direction distal end side, the axial direction proximal end side portion of the pierced portion being made to be a dimension so as to fit together therewith and the axial direction distal end side portion of the pierced portion being made to be a dimension so as not to fit together therewith.

10. The webbing retractor of claim 1 , wherein the sectional surface area, in the direction orthogonal to the axis, of the pierced portion becomes smaller in a plurality of steps while heading toward an axial direction distal end side.

11. The webbing retractor of claim 3 , wherein the narrow portion collides with a plurality of the bite-in portions.

12. The webbing retractor of claim 3 , comprising a pair of facing portions that are provided at the rotating member so as to face one another, the bite-in portion being disposed between the pair of facing portions, and the narrow portion being disposed between the pair of facing portions before the moving member is moved toward the axial direction distal end side.

13. The webbing retractor of claim 3 , wherein a cross-section, in the direction orthogonal to the axis, of the narrow portion is made to be a shape that has at least one of point symmetry or line symmetry.

Assignees

• Tokai Rika Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tanaka Takahiro
• Yanagawa Wataru
• Okubo Shinichi
• Suga Yuji

Classifications

• B60R22/4633 Primary

  Linear actuators, e.g. comprising a piston moving along reel axis and rotating along its own axis · CPC title

• B60R2022/4647

  the driving means being a belt, a chain or the like · CPC title

• B60R22/4604 Primary

  characterised by arrangements in vehicle or relative to seat belt · CPC title

• B60R22/4676

  comprising energy-absorbing means operating between belt reel and retractor frame · CPC title