IP Library Granted Patent US 12,129,137
Granted Patent B2
US 12,129,137 · App. 17/909,305 · Granted Oct 29, 2024

Webbing winding device

Inventors: Takamasa Sato (Aichi, JP); Motoki Sugiyama (Aichi, JP)
Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
B65H18/10B60R22/34B60R22/44B65H2403/72B65H2403/80
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Patent No.
US 12,129,137
App. No.
17/909,305
Granted
Oct 29, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

In the webbing winding device, the rotation of the output shaft of the motor is transmitted to the spool via the first gear train. In this state, when the rotation speed of the spool decreases and the rotation of the slider base of the first clutch decreases, the coupling pawl of the second clutch is pressed by the slider provided on the slider base to mesh with the ratchet gear, and the rotation of the output shaft of the motor is transmitted to the spool via the second gear train.

Claims (13)

1. A webbing winding device comprising:

a spool to which a longitudinal proximal end of a long belt-shaped webbing is locked and which winds the webbing from a longitudinal proximal end side of the webbing by rotation in a winding direction;

a drive unit that is driven to rotate an output shaft;

a first rotation transmission unit that is coupled to the output shaft, receives input due to rotation of the output shaft, transmits the rotation of the output shaft in a predetermined direction to the spool in a state in which the rotation is transmissible to the spool, and rotates the spool in a winding direction;

a second rotation transmission unit that is coupled to the output shaft, receives input due to rotation of the output shaft, sets a reduction ratio of rotation of the output shaft from the output shaft to the spool to be larger than a reduction ratio of the first rotation transmission unit, transmits the rotation of the output shaft to the spool in a state in which the rotation is allowed to be transmitted to the spool, and rotates the spool in a winding direction; and

a switching unit that switches a transmission path of rotation from the output shaft to the spool from the first rotation transmission unit to the second rotation transmission unit in a case in which, in a state in which the rotation of the output shaft of the drive unit in the predetermined direction is transmitted to the spool via the first rotation transmission unit, a rotation speed of the spool due to transmission of rotation via the first rotation transmission unit is lower than a rotation speed of the spool when the rotation is transmitted to the spool via the second rotation transmission unit.

2. The webbing winding device according to claim 1 , wherein the switching unit includes:

a first clutch that transmits rotation of the output shaft in a predetermined direction transmitted to the first rotation transmission unit to the spool and is actuated to block transmission of the rotation from the first rotation transmission unit to the spool, and

a second clutch that blocks transmission of rotation from the second rotation transmission unit to the spool, that is actuated, in a case in which, in a state in which the rotation of the output shaft of the drive unit in the predetermined direction is transmitted to the spool via the first rotation transmission unit, a rotation speed of the spool due to transmission of rotation via the first rotation transmission unit is lower than a rotation speed of the spool when the rotation is transmitted to the spool via the second rotation transmission unit, to connect the second rotation transmission unit to the spool, that transmits rotation of the output shaft in the predetermined direction to the spool via the second rotation transmission unit, and that further actuates the first clutch.

3. The webbing winding device according to claim 2 , wherein:

the first clutch includes a first rotating body rotated by rotation of the output shaft in the predetermined direction;

the second clutch includes: a second rotating body that is rotated coaxially with the first rotating body at a rotation speed equal to or lower than a rotation speed of the first rotating body by rotation of the output shaft in the predetermined direction, and a coupling member that is provided on the second rotating body and causes, by a movement of the coupling member, a state where rotation of the second rotating body is allowed to be transmitted to the spool to occur; and

the webbing winding device includes a pressing member that is provided on the first rotating body so as to be rotatable together with the first rotating body, and presses the coupling member to move the coupling member when a rotation speed of the second rotating body exceeds a rotation speed of the first rotating body.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 2, 2022
From: SATO, TAKAMASA; SUGIYAMA, MOTOKI
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
Reel/Frame 060984/0555 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-053432 · Mar 24, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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