| 摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a seat belt wearing promoting device capable of increasing a seat belt wearing rate by half opening a glove box installed at the front of a cabin to provide the strong awareness of wearing a seat belt to an occupant when the occupant does not wear the seat belt. <P>SOLUTION: This seat belt wearing promoting device comprises a seat belt wearing detection means 20 detecting the worn or non-worn state of the seat belt 11, a glove box opening means 32 switching the lock mechanism 31 of the glove box 30 installed at the front part of the cabin into an unlocked state and automatically opening the glove box 30 in a half-open state, and a control means 22 operating the glove box opening means 32 when the seat belt 11 is not worn in the turned-on state of an ignition switch 21. To close the glove box 30 half-opened due to the non-installation of the seat belt, the seat belt must be worn and, therefore, the wearing rate of the seat belt 11 can be increased. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI</p> |
