Patent ID: 7728239
Filing Date: 2010-06-01
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A buckle switching device for a buckle for safety belts for electrically detecting whether a belt tongue is locked in the buckle, where the buckle switching device is at least partly enveloped by a housing of the buckle, and the buckle switching device comprising a conductor arrangement and a first detection device which is influenced by means of the belt tongue for electrically detecting whether the belt tongue is locked, the buckle switching device having a second detection device, wherein the conductor arrangement has first contact regions for an electrical connection to the first detection device and second contact regions for an electrical connection to the second detection device which is capable of being influenced by means of the belt tongue, wherein one of the detection devices has an electrically conductive snap-action disc which is moved by a mechanical operating device from a first to a second actuation position, which closes or opens an electrical contact.