B - Operations – Transporting – 60 – R
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
60
R
B60R 22/12 (2006.01) B60R 21/06 (2006.01) B60R 21/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2397434
An over the highway vehicle having an occupant restraint system is disclosed. An improved harness for retaining an occupant in a bunk is also disclosed. The harness is connected to a bunk by a buckle and hinge arrangement. A frangible connection between an upstanding leaf of the hinge is provided which fails due to forces applied to the harness as a result of a collision. The system includes an occupant restraining strap and a buckle having a component attached to the strap and a mating component attached to the vehicle for releasably connecting the strap to the vehicle at a buckle location. An anchor securer the strap to the vehicle at a location spaced from the buckle location. The mating component to vehicle connection includes a pivot and a frangible connection for maintaining the mating component in a use position during normal vehicle operation and being designed to break upon vehicle impact causing a force of a magnitude greater than a predetermined normal magnitude whereby to permit the mating member to rotate about the pivot to position a span of the strap in a linear orientation between the pivot and the anchor.
Gowling Lafleur Henderson Llp
Volvo Trucks North America Inc.
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