Patent ID: 7712194
Filing Date: 2010-05-11
Classification: A44B,B60R,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A belt tongue for a safety belt system having belt webbing passing through the belt tongue and the belt tongue adapted for connection with a buckle, the belt tongue comprising a connecting plate for connecting the belt tongue to the buckle, a tongue main body being connected to the belt tongue and the main body forming a semi-cylindrical inner surface, and a clamping element with a bending edge, the clamping element forming a semi-cylindrical outer surface and being mounted on the tongue main body with the outer surface supported by the inner surface in a way that the clamping element may rotate in relation to the tongue main body from a normal position if the force on the belt webbing exceeds a defined force to a blocking position in which the webbing is clamped between the main body and the clamping element, wherein the belt tongue provides at least one fixing device which blocks the clamping element at the tongue main body to maintain the clamping element in the normal position until the force on the webbing exceeds the defined force.