Patent ID: 8240012

Claim:
A buckle assembly for a vehicle, comprising: a seat belt with a tongue; a seat belt buckle with a blocking mechanism and a manual release button, the buckle configured to receive and releasably latch to the tongue; and a remote buckle release mechanism, including: a buckle release cable; and a motor module operably connected to the buckle release cable, wherein the blocking mechanism comprises: a lock pin; and a slider movable between a locked position under the lock pin and an unlocked position not under the lock pin, the cable being connected to the slider, wherein the motor module is configured to pull the cable to release the slider from the locked position under the lock pin such that the tongue is released from the buckle, wherein the buckle assembly is configured to be actuated by the manual release button to unlatch the tongue from the buckle, and wherein the motor module is actuated from a location remote from the buckle to thereby release the tongue from the buckle via the remote buckle release mechanism.