Patent ID: 7029033

Claim:
A seatbelt apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: a driver seatbelt provided about a driver seat; a passenger seatbelt provided about another passenger's seat except the driver seat; a driver-seatbelt driving mechanism for controlling at least one of a belt tension of the driver seatbelt and a rewind timing of rewinding of the driver seatbelt; a passenger-seatbelt driving mechanism for controlling at least one of a belt tension of the passenger seatbelt and a rewind timing of rewinding of the passenger seatbelt; a driving-condition sensing unit for detecting the driving condition of the vehicle; and a control unit connected with all of the driver-seatbelt driving mechanisms, the passenger-seatbelt driving mechanism and the driving-condition sensing unit, for controlling the operations of the driver-seatbelt driving mechanism and the passenger-seatbelt driving mechanism, in terms of at least one of respective belt tensions and respective rewind timings of the driver seatbelt and the passenger seatbelt, the control unit controls the driver-seatbelt driving mechanism and the passenger-seatbelt driving mechanism so that holding conditions of the driver seat belt and the passenger seat belt are different from each other.