WO2007115301A2 - Harness tension sensor and crash occurrence sensor - Google Patents
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- WO2007115301A2 WO2007115301A2 PCT/US2007/065955 US2007065955W WO2007115301A2 WO 2007115301 A2 WO2007115301 A2 WO 2007115301A2 US 2007065955 W US2007065955 W US 2007065955W WO 2007115301 A2 WO2007115301 A2 WO 2007115301A2
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60N—SEATS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLES; VEHICLE PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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- B60N2/24—Seats specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement or mounting of seats in vehicles for particular purposes or particular vehicles
- B60N2/26—Seats specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement or mounting of seats in vehicles for particular purposes or particular vehicles for children
- B60N2/28—Seats readily mountable on, and dismountable from, existing seats or other parts of the vehicle
- B60N2/2803—Adaptations for seat belts
- B60N2/2812—Adaptations for seat belts for securing the child to the child seat
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B60R22/00—Safety belts or body harnesses in vehicles
- B60R22/48—Control systems, alarms, or interlock systems, for the correct application of the belt or harness
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60N—SEATS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLES; VEHICLE PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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- B60N2/24—Seats specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement or mounting of seats in vehicles for particular purposes or particular vehicles
- B60N2/26—Seats specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement or mounting of seats in vehicles for particular purposes or particular vehicles for children
- B60N2/28—Seats readily mountable on, and dismountable from, existing seats or other parts of the vehicle
- B60N2/2803—Adaptations for seat belts
- B60N2002/2815—Adaptations for seat belts with additional belt accessories, e.g. a belt tension detector
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B60R22/00—Safety belts or body harnesses in vehicles
- B60R22/48—Control systems, alarms, or interlock systems, for the correct application of the belt or harness
- B60R2022/4808—Sensing means arrangements therefor
- B60R2022/4841—Sensing means arrangements therefor for sensing belt tension
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- This invention relates to a harness tension sensor and related apparatus for a child safety seat.
- Child safety seats have a harness that includes a pair of shoulder straps that extend from the back rest of the seat across the shoulders of the seat occupant and a crotch strap that extends upwardly from the seat bottom to a point between the legs of the seat occupant.
- the shoulder straps extend downwardly and have latch members that interconnect with a latch affixed to the crotch strap that extends upwardly through a slot from below the seating surface.
- a tensioning strap extends through an opening in the front of the seating surface.
- the tensioning strap is pulled to place the shoulder straps in tension so that they fit securely against the anterior aspect of the upper torso of the seat occupant. Any significant slack in the shoulder straps can increase the risk of injury by subjecting the seat occupant to an initial rapid, unrestrained acceleration before the shoulder straps are tensioned by the forward movement of the seat occupant and bring the seat occupant to an almost instantaneous stop.
- present child safety seats to not provide a positive means of indicating that the seat has been subjected to a load of sufficient severity to require that the seat not be further used.
- a severe impact may stretch the shoulder straps beyond their elastic limit, warp or damage plastic seat parts, or otherwise render the seat unsafe for further use.
- the damage will not be readily visible and, in any event, it may not be apparent to the user that the damage is severe enough to require seat replacement.
- a child safety device for a vehicle including a seat including a shell, a harness including at least one strap for retaining an occupant in the seat, and a sensor between a device on the strap and the seat shell for indicating whether the harness is sufficiently tensioned.
- the harness includes shoulder straps and a crotch strap.
- the device on the strap includes a strap buckle or slide.
- the senor is positioned on a shell bottom.
- a child safety device for a vehicle includes a seat including a shell, a harness including at least one strap for retaining an occupant in the seat, and a sensor including crushable members between a device on the strap and the seat shell for indicating whether the harness has been severely tensioned.
- the crushable members are calibrated to crush at 500-700 pounds of load.
- the crushable members comprise ribs or thin walls.
- the sensor is a one use, one way type.
- a child safety device for a vehicle includes a seat including a shell and a harness including a strap for retaining an occupant in the seat.
- the device further includes a sensor between a device on the strap and the seat shell for indicating whether the harness is sufficiently tensioned, and a sensor including crushable members between the device on the strap and the seat shell for indicating whether the harness has been severely tensioned.
- both sensors are positioned under the seat shell.
- Figure 1 is front perspective view of an embodiment of a child safety seat
- Figure 2 is side view of the embodiment of the child safety seat
- Figure 3 is an enlarged view of an embodiment of a crash occurrence assembly for the child safety seat
- Figure 4 is a top view of an embodiment of a sensor housing
- Figure 5 is a side view of the sensor housing of Figure 4 showing crash occurrence and belt tension sensors
- Figure 6 is an enlarged side view of an embodiment of a belt tension sensor in a closed state
- Figure 7 is an enlarged side view of an embodiment of a crash occurrence sensor in an open state
- Figure 8 is a side view of the crash occurrence sensor of Figure 7 in the closed state
- Figure 9 is an enlarged side view of an embodiment of a belt tension sensor in an open state
- Figure 10 is a side view of the belt tension sensor of Figure 9 in the closed state
- Figure 11 is an enlarged side view of an embodiment of a combined belt tension and crash occurrence sensor showing the belt tension sensor in a closed state
- Figure 12 is a side view of the embodiment of Figure 11 showing the crash occurrence sensor in a closed state.
- Figures 1-3 show a child safety seat 12 and harness 20 including a pair of shoulder straps 23 and 25 for insertion into a buckle 22 fixed to a crotch strap 26 that passes through a slot 29 in a seat shell 14 and is fixed at a distal end to a three bar slide 27.
- a sensor housing 18 is positioned between the seat shell 14 and the three bar slide 24.
- the tension sensor 10 is designed to insure that sufficient tension is present in a harness 20 for a child safety seat 12.
- the sensor 10 may be associated with a buckle 22 or three bar slide 24 that captures one end of the crotch strap 26.
- the buckle 22 or three bar slide 24 is sufficiently large to retain the crotch strap 26 in the correct position between the legs of the seat occupant by bearing against the underside or bottom of the plastic seat bottom shell 14 with the strap 26 itself extending through the slot 29 and into the crotch area of the seat occupant.
- the senor 10 sits between the crotch strap buckle 22, or, a three-bar slide 24, and the plastic seat bottom shell 14.
- the crotch strap 26 or three bar slide 24 is pulled upwardly thorough the slot 29 in the seat 12 bottom, and the buckle 22 or three bar slide 24 presses the sensor 10 against the seat bottom shell 14.
- a plunger 42 or other mechanism urges the sensor 10 from a normally open position to a closed position when there is too little tension on the harness 20. Closing the circuit allows a current to flow to a device such as a microprocessor that can activate any conventional alert means, such as a bell, buzzer, light, etc. that the harness needs to be further tightened. Latching the harness correctly and/or further tightening the harness 20 opens the circuit and deactivates the alert.
- the circuit can be designed so that the circuit is normally closed when the tension is correct, as shown in Figures 6 and 10, and in the open condition when the tension must be increased, as shown in Figures 5 and 9.
- the open circuit is sensed and a microprocessor generates the alert, as described above.
- the sensor may be any suitable pressure-sensitive on-off type switch, for example, spring-loaded contacts 13 that engage a complementary contact 15 in order to close the circuit, as shown in Figures 5 and 9-12.
- the child safety seat 12 has a sensor 11 that detects that the seat 12 has been subjected to a load of sufficient severity that further use of the seat 12 should not be permitted.
- This crash occurrence sensor 11 may be used together with or separate from the tension sensor 10 described above.
- Figure 11 shows an embodiment of the invention wherein a plunger 42 indicates first that belt tension is sufficient and also indicates when the harness 20 has been subjected to a mor severe load.
- the crash occurrence sensor 11 is a "one use, one way" sensor. When it detects a severe load on a single occasion, it closes a circuit that provides an alert that the seat 12 has potentially been subjected to sufficient damage that the seat 12 should be discarded and not further used. The circuit is designed not to return to a normal state.
- the crash occurrence sensor 110 includes crushable members 77 that are calibrated to crush at, for example, 500-700 lbs. of load. Crushing of the crushable members 77, as shown in Figures 8 and 12, closes a circuit.
- the crushable members 77 may be ribs, thin walls, foam or honeycomb materials, or any other suitable material that has the ability to resist crushing up to a predetermined point, and then reliably crush to a degree sufficient to close a circuit.
- the crushable members 77 may be positioned on an upper surface of the crotch strap buckle 22, or a three-bar slide 24, so that in the event of a severe load, the buckle 22 or slide 24 is pulled upwardly against the plastic shell 14 of the seat by the crotch strap 26 so severely that the crushable members 77 are crushed against the plastic shell 14, engaging the contact 17 and 19 to close a circuit. With less severe loads, the crushable members 77 do not crush to any appreciable degree.
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