Patent ID: 8132863

Claim:
A vehicle seat comprising a seat base and a seatback, the vehicle seat having as permanent features a seat belt with seat belt webbing and a pair of seat belt guides positioned such that when a lap portion of the seat belt webbing extending across the top face of the seat base is received in both of the seat belt guides the lap portion of the seat belt webbing intersects the seat belt guides at a selected distance from a forward face of the seatback, each of the seat belt guides restricting movement of the lap portion of the seat belt webbing away from the forward face of the seatback; the seat base has a pair of opposed side faces, each side face including a channel extending downwardly from a top face of the seat base, each channel forms one of the seat belt guides, wherein located within a first channel is an anchor fixed to a frame of the seat base securing an end of seat belt webbing and located within the other channel is a seat belt buckle secured to the frame of the seat base and adapted to receive a seat belt tongue which is on the seat belt, and wherein the seat belt guides formed as the channels with the webbing anchor in one channel and the buckle in the other channel restricts movement of the lap portion of the seat belt webbing away from the top face of the seat base.