Seat Belt Systems: Adjustments

1. ADJUSTABLE SHOULDER ANCHOR
The front seat belt has a mechanism that allows the occupant to select the most appropriate shoulder anchor height from among the four positions [changeable within 70 mm (2.75 in) range]. The adjustment is made by moving the anchor up or down while keeping the anchor knob raised to bring the anchor to the desired position.




2. BELT IN SEAT
The front inner belt is now integral with the front seat. This keeps the relative positions of the occupant and the front inner belt always constant, irrespective of the adjustments of the front seat position.

When an impact is applied to the occupant in a collision, the inner belt is pulled together with the upper hook in the direction of the arrow to engage the upper hook with the lower hook. As a result, the impact load is transmitted to the vehicle body and dispersed.

3. DIRECT CLAMP TYPE ELR
To shorten the length at webbing drawn out before the activation at ELR on the abrupt deceleration of the vehicle, a mechanism which directly clamps the webbing is added to the ELR system.




1. Webbing (1) is drawn out.
2. Pole (4) is engaged with latch plate (5) and rotates counterclockwise.
3. Pole pin moves and tension plate (6) rotates counterclockwise.
4. Tension plate (6) pushes outer lever (7) and rotates it clockwise.
5. Outer lever (7) and inner lever (3) rotate clockwise as a unit and push up clamp (2).
6. Clamp (2) parallelly moves along with upper plate (9) and webbing (1) is clamped between clamp (2) and lower plate (8).




4. AUTOMATIC ELR
When the webbing of the rear seat belt is once drawn out completely, its retractor is changed to the automatic locking condition to securely install the child restraint system. In this condition, the webbing can be retracted but cannot be extended. When the belt is retracted to some extent, this condition is released.