18473719. ROTATABLE SEATBELT BUCKLE (Ford Global Technologies, LLC)
ROTATABLE SEATBELT BUCKLE
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Murugan Sundaram Ramasamy of Canton MI US
Srinivas Reddy Malapati of Novi MI US
ROTATABLE SEATBELT BUCKLE
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18473719 titled 'ROTATABLE SEATBELT BUCKLE
Original Abstract Submitted
A vehicle includes a vehicle seat and a plate fixed relative to the vehicle seat. A seatbelt buckle is rotatably supported by the vehicle seat and is rotatable relative to the plate to one of a first or second position. A first and second slot are both in one of the plate or the seatbelt buckle. A pin supported by and movable to an extended position relative to one of the plate or the seatbelt buckle. The pin is spaced from the first and second slot when the seatbelt buckle is in a stowed position and is positioned to extend into the first or second slot when the seatbelt buckle is in the first or second position. A computer executes instructions to rotate the seatbelt buckle to one of the first or second position based on a size of an occupant and, then, move the pin to the extended position.