Patent ID: 7722081

Claim:
A restraint system comprising: a shoulder inertial reel; a shoulder belt extendable from the shoulder inertial reel and having a shoulder connector; a lap inertial reel; a lap belt extendable from the lap inertial reel and having a lap belt connector; a buckle mount connected to a vehicle; a buckle adjuster connected to the buckle mount, the buckle adjuster comprising: an arm having a mount end and a latch end, the mount end attached to the buckle mount; a latching mechanism fixedly attached to the latch end of the arm; and a longitudinal slide having a stop end and a buckle end and at least two longitudinally spaced apart latching features for cooperation with the latching mechanism to latch the slide in one of at least two longitudinal positions; and a buckle connected to the buckle end of the longitudinal slide and receiving the belts wherein the latching mechanism forms a guide; the longitudinal slide slides longitudinally through the guide; wherein the latching mechanism further comprises: a housing; a pin extending through the housing and having an engaging end aligned to engage the latching features and a knob end opposite the engaging end; a spring residing in the housing and biasing the pin in an inward direction to engage one of the latching features; and a knob attached to the knob end of the pin, the knob biased toward the housing by the spring.