US PATENT SUBCLASS 280 / 801.1
.~.~ Safety belt or harness (e.g., lap belt or shoulder harness)

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280 /   HD   LAND VEHICLES

29  DF  WHEELED {21}
727  DF  .~ Attachment {22}
801.1.~.~ Safety belt or harness (e.g., lap belt or shoulder harness) {6}
801.2  DF  .~.~.~> Having adjustable anchor means
802  DF  .~.~.~> Passive restraint system {2}
805  DF  .~.~.~> With energy absorber
806  DF  .~.~.~> Inertia responsive locking or tightening of belt or harness
807  DF  .~.~.~> Retractable
808  DF  .~.~.~> Shoulder belt or harness

DEFINITION

Classification: 280/801.1

Safety belt or harness, e.g., lap belt or shoulder harness:

(under subclass 727) Apparatus wherein the vehicle is provided with a flexible, straplike member engageable with the body of a vehicle occupant and preventing, restraining, or limiting movement of the occupant relative to the vehicle should the vehicle sharply decelerate, collide with another object, or be involved in any other sudden, unexpected movement.

(1) Note. A safety belt or harness included in this and the indented subclasses must be combined with significant vehicle structure such as, (a) where the vehicle structure has been specifically modified in some way to accommodate the belt or harness device, (b) where the vehicle structure operationally cooperates with the belt or harness device (e.g., the folding of the front seat back moves belt system to allow occupant access to the rear seat of the vehicle or the belt or harness device relies upon the opening or closing of a vehicle door for its operation), or (c) where the belt or harness device is combined with other extraneous vehicle structure (e.g., a door or a portion thereof, a door opening, a dashboard, a windshield, a vehicle, brake or bumper, a rocker panel, or seating arrangements peculiar to a vehicle). Mere, incidental attachment of the belt or harness device or accessories therefor to named, conventional vehicle body portions (e.g., the vehicle body or frame, center post, transmission tunnel, roof rail, floor pan, side panel, or vehicle seat) or the location of a portion of the belt or harness device relative to such named, conventional vehicle body portions does not constitute significant vehicle structure and will, accordingly, place the document elsewhere. See the Search Class notes below.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

733, for an inflatable device designed to inflate upon impact or impending impact where the inflatable device is (a) shaped as or resembles a belt, strap, or harness arrangement or (b) is combined with belt, strap, or harness arrangement.

801.2, for a safety belt or harness having an adjustable anchor means.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

24, Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc., particularly 572+, for a device in the nature of a buckle for joining two straplike members.

180, Motor Vehicles,

268+, for a safety belt or harness operationally combined with a motor vehicle system (e.g., the ignition circuit) or a component (e.g., the transmission selector lever).

297, Chairs and Seats,

468+, for a safety belt or harness device, per se, combined with a seat or combined merely with named, conventional vehicle body portions, see (1) Note above.

340, Communications: Electrical,

457.1, for a specific, vehicle-mounted, electrical system which may involve a circuit which includes elements of a seat

belt.