Seat belt failure warning apparatus

US9108560B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-9108560-B2
Application numberUS-201313832819-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateMar 15, 2013
Priority dateApr 19, 2012
Publication dateAug 18, 2015
Grant dateAug 18, 2015

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The seat belt failure warning apparatus is disposed with a buckle switch that detects wearing of a webbing, a rotation sensor that detects a drawing-out amount of the webbing, and a liquid crystal display that switchingly displays a plurality of alarm information. A controller is disposed with a failure determination unit that determines whether the seat belt device has had a failure or not, and a control unit that controls display of the liquid crystal display. When the buckle switch is OFF and drawing-out of the webbing is detected by the rotation sensor after the failure determination unit has determined the seat belt device has had a failure, failure information of the seat belt which indicates that the seat belt device has had a failure as a determination result by the failure determination unit is displayed on the liquid crystal display regardless of a display priority of alarm information.

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What is claimed is: 1. A seat belt failure warning apparatus comprising: a wearing state detection section that detects wearing or non-wearing of a webbing of a seat belt device; a drawing-out amount detection section that detects a drawing-out amount of the webbing; a failure determination unit that determines whether the seat belt device has had a failure or not; a display section that switchingly displays a variety of information including failure information of the seat…

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What does patent US9108560B2 cover?
The seat belt failure warning apparatus is disposed with a buckle switch that detects wearing of a webbing, a rotation sensor that detects a drawing-out amount of the webbing, and a liquid crystal display that switchingly displays a plurality of alarm information. A controller is disposed with a failure determination unit that determines whether the seat belt device has had a failure or not, an…
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Honda Motor Co Ltd
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification B60R22/48. Mapped technology areas include Operations & Transport.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Aug 18 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
What related patents are in patentsdb?
We list 8 related publications on this page (citations in our corpus or others sharing the same primary CPC).