Harness system with a buckle restraining function

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12029284-B2
Application number	US-202217888505-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 16, 2022
Priority date	Jul 23, 2018
Publication date	Jul 9, 2024
Grant date	Jul 9, 2024

Abstract

A harness system is provided and includes an upper buckle, an upper strap and a restraining assembly. The upper strap includes shoulder portion and a waist portion divided by the upper buckle. A through slot is formed on the upper buckle. The restraining assembly includes an anti-sliding structure, a beam structure disposed on the upper buckle and a stopping component. The through slot includes a first portion and a second portion divided by the beam structure and respectively adjacent to the shoulder portion and the waist portion. The upper strap passes through the first portion of the through slot from bottom to top and passes through the second portion of the through slot from top to bottom. The stopping component is detachably disposed on the shoulder portion and configured to abut against the upper buckle for restraining a sliding movement of the upper buckle relative to the upper strap.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A harness system with a buckle restraining function, the harness system comprising:
an upper buckle, a through slot being formed on the upper buckle, the through slot comprising a first portion and a second portion;
an upper strap slidably passing through the upper buckle, and the upper strap comprising a shoulder portion and a waist portion divided by the upper buckle, the first portion being adjacent to the shoulder portion, the second portion being adjacent to the waist portion, the upper strap passing through the first portion of the through slot from bottom to top and passing through the second portion of the through slot from top to bottom; and
a restraining assembly configured to restrain a sliding movement of the upper buckle relative to the upper strap and toward the shoulder portion when the waist portion of the upper strap is forced by a passenger's body during a collision or an emergency brake of a vehicle, the restraining assembly comprising:
an anti-sliding structure;
a beam structure rotatably disposed on the upper buckle, the first portion and the second portion being divided by the beam structure;
a slanted surface structure disposed on a wall of the beam structure, a protruding length of the slanted surface structure increasing from bottom to top, the anti-sliding structure being disposed on the wall of the beam structure and configured to engage with the upper strap, the upper strap being engaged by the anti-sliding structure for restraining the sliding movement of the upper buckle relative to the upper strap and toward the shoulder portion when the upper strap is forced to drive the beam structure to rotate relative to the upper buckle along an engaging direction, when the shoulder portion is forced to slide the upper buckle relative to the upper strap and toward the waist portion, the beam structure being driven by the upper strap to rotate relative to upper buckle along a disengaging direction opposite to the engaging direction, so that the upper strap is not clamped between a wall of the second portion and the wall of the beam structure and not attached with the anti-sliding structure due to configuration of the slanted surface structure on the wall of the beam structure;
an angle restraining component for restraining a rotating angle of the beam structure, so as to prevent an excessive rotation of the beam structure; and
a stopping component detachably disposed on the shoulder portion and configured to abut against the upper buckle for restraining the sliding movement of the upper buckle relative to the upper strap.

2. The harness system of claim 1 , wherein the restraining assembly further comprises a recovering component abutting between the beam structure and the upper buckle and configured to bias the beam structure to rotate along the engaging direction.

Assignees

• Wonderland Switzerland Ag

Inventors

• Lee Yen-Lin
• Cheng Kai-Wen
• Wang Chih-Wei

Classifications

• A44B11/2569 Primary

  Safety measures (buckles for releasing in a vehicle emergency B60R22/32; control, alarm, or interlock systems for the correct application of safety belt buckles in vehicles B60R22/48) · CPC title

• A44B11/2561

  Tongue elements · CPC title

• B60R22/32

  Devices for releasing in an emergency, e.g. after an accident {; Remote or automatic unbuckling devices (unlocking devices for retractors B60R22/3416)} · CPC title

• A44B11/2557

  with strap length adjustment · CPC title

• A44B11/2549

  Fastening of other buckle elements to the main buckle (buckles with several tongues released by the same mechanism A44B11/2507 - A44B11/2542) · CPC title