Patent ID: 7798275

Claim:
An arrangement for automatically supporting a vehicle occupant in a vehicle seat when lateral dynamic forces are acting, comprising: a restraint system for securing an upper body of the vehicle occupant in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle as a function of the lateral dynamics, the restraint system comprising: a seat belt; a control circuit, wherein the restraint system is configured to tension the seat belt if the control circuit detects that a lateral acceleration threshold value is reached; a locking device that locks the seat belt if the lateral acceleration exceeds the threshold value; a release device that, when electrically energized by the control circuit, cancels a locked state of the locking device, wherein the restraint system is configured to reverse the tensioning of the seat belt brought about by the control circuit during the energization of the release device; and an input unit interacting with the control circuit permitting the driver to predetermine a time period between the tensioning of the seat belt and the reversal of the tensioning.