IP Library Granted Patent US 10,093,273
Granted Patent B2
US 10,093,273 · App. 15/393,351 · Granted Oct 9, 2018

Utility vehicle

Inventors: Yoshinori Tsumiyama (Miki, JP); Teruaki Yamamoto (Himeji, JP)
Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B60R22/18B60N2/4249B60R22/34B60R2022/1806B60Y2200/20
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,093,273
App. No.
15/393,351
Granted
Oct 9, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A utility vehicle includes a seat, a hip guard, and a seat belt which restrains an occupant to seat. The seat belt includes a belt, a tongue plate movably mounted on the belt, an anchor mounted on a distal end of the belt and rotatably mounted on a hip guard, a buckle on which the tongue plate is detachably mounted, and a retractor disposed substantially above the anchor and provided for winding the belt.

Claims (14)

1. A utility vehicle comprising:

a seat having a seat cushion on which an occupant can be seated and a seat back on which the occupant can lean;

a hip guard configured to be disposed so as to be positioned outside a hip portion of the occupant when seated on the seat cushion in a vehicle width direction, the hip guard having a tongue-shaped anchor attachment portion extending downward from a lower portion of the hip guard;

a shoulder guard disposed above the hip guard and configured to be disposed so as to be positioned outside a breast portion or shoulder portion of the occupant when seated on the seat cushion in the vehicle width direction; and

a seat belt for restraining the occupant to the seat,

wherein the seat belt comprises:

a belt;

a tongue plate movably mounted on the belt;

an anchor mounted on a distal end of the belt and rotatably mounted on the tongue-shaped anchor attachment portion of the hip guard about a rotation axis extending in the vehicle width direction;

a buckle on which the tongue plate is detachably mounted; and

a retractor disposed substantially above the anchor for winding the belt, wherein the hip guard and the shoulder guard are formed of separate U-shaped pipes, respectively.

2. The utility vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the anchor of the seat belt is mounted on a seat-cushion-side portion of the tongue-shaped anchor attachment portion of the hip guard which opposedly faces the seat cushion with a distance therebetween in the vehicle width direction.

3. The utility vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the utility vehicle further includes a door disposed outside the seat in the vehicle width direction, and

a door striker for the door is mounted on an outer portion of the hip guard.

Assignments (2)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Jun 2, 2022
From: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 060300/0504 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 29, 2016
From: TSUMIYAMA, YOSHINORI; YAMAMOTO, TERUAKI
To: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 040802/0820 →
Continuity (1)
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