US 11,738,712 B2
Seat belt attachment/detachment detection switch
Kenjiro Desaki, Osaka (JP); and Takahide Kawanishi, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to HOSIDEN CORPORATION, Osaka (JP)
Filed by HOSIDEN CORPORATION, Osaka (JP)
Filed on Apr. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/716,314.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-069796 (JP), filed on Apr. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0332282 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. H01H 19/18 (2006.01); B60R 22/48 (2006.01); H01H 15/14 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 22/48 (2013.01) [H01H 15/14 (2013.01); H01H 19/18 (2013.01); B60R 2022/4816 (2013.01); H01H 2207/004 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A seat belt attachment/detachment detection switch, comprising:
a printed circuit board including a circuit for detecting attachment/detachment of a seat belt;
a movable plate configured to slidably move along with insertion of a tongue plate of the seat belt;
a rotor including a lever coupled to the movable plate, the rotor being rotatably attached to the printed circuit board to rotate as the tongue plate is pushed into a buckle;
an electric brush attached to a surface of the rotor that faces the printed circuit board, the electric brush having leg parts that change a state of contact/non-contact with a conductive part of the circuit in accordance with a rotating state of the rotor;
a protrusion provided at a tip of the lever, the protrusion protruding in a direction away from the printed circuit board and being inserted into a groove provided on the movable plate, wherein
the groove includes
a first linear part extending in a tongue plate extracting direction, and
an inclination part positioned more in a tongue plate extracting direction than the first linear part and extending in the tongue plate extracting direction with an inclination at an angle θ, provided that θ<90°, based on the extending direction of the first linear part, and
a second linear part positioned more in the tongue plate extracting direction than the inclination part and extending in parallel to the extending direction of the first linear part.