I. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to a shoulder guide for an automotive seat belt.
II. Description of Related Art
Many automotive vehicles utilize seat belt shoulder guides for routing the seat belt over the shoulder of the vehicle occupant. These previously known shoulder guides typically include a metal panel welded to a bent wire frame. The panel is then secured to the automotive vehicle frame in any conventional fashion, such as by bolts.
These previously known seat belt shoulder guides, however, suffer from a number of disadvantages. One such disadvantage of the previously known seat belt shoulder guides is that such shoulder guides are susceptible to both seat belt rotation within the guide as well as jamming of the seat belt within the guide. Such rotation and/or jamming of the seat belt within the guide is inconvenient for the vehicle occupant in utilizing the seat belt.
Furthermore, such previously known seat belt shoulder guides were relatively heavy thus adding to the overall weight of the vehicle.