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the pelvis and, in three-point and multi-point designs, the shoulder girdle, rather than by unrestrained impact with the interior.", "scope_statement": "This model owns an individual seat-belt restraint assembly, its components, attachment and occupant interfaces, operating states, condition evidence and supported actions; it records dependencies on the seat, vehicle and occupant without owning their models.", "in_scope": [ "Belt configuration and the seating position it serves", "Webbing, latch plate, buckle, adjusters and any retractors or integrated restraint devices", "Attachment interfaces, routing and installation compatibility", "Fastening, adjustment, payout, retraction and locking states where applicable", "Observable damage, event history and evidence supporting serviceability", "Applicable instructions and constraints on use, maintenance and replacement" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The vehicle's overall crashworthiness and complete occupant-protection system", "Seat structure and 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fall-arrest harness or positioning strap?", "kind": "definition", "id": "seat-occupant-restraint-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Which label, manufacturer document or installation record supports that identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "seat-occupant-restraint-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assembly-membership", "name": "Assembly membership", "description": "Defines the represented assembly and its constituent restraint components.", "findings": [ { "id": "component-and-variant-boundary", "name": "Component and variant boundary", "description": "Record the belt configuration, identifying variant and components included in this assembly record.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which webbing sections, latch plates, buckles, adjusters and fitted devices belong to this assembly?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "component-and-variant-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Does the record represent a complete restraint assembly, a replacement subassembly or an unidentified collection of parts?", "kind": "definition", "id": "component-and-variant-boundary-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "installation-and-attachment", "name": "Installation and attachment", "description": "Records the seating position, mounting interfaces and installed restraint path.", "rationale": "A seat belt's suitability depends on its specific installation, including matched components and attachment geometry.", "layers": [ { "id": "seating-position-compatibility", "name": "Seating-position compatibility", "description": "Links the assembly to the position and configuration for which it is intended.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-installation-match", "name": "Documented installation match", "description": "Record the evidence matching the belt variant and mating components to the installed seating position.", "questions": [ { "text": "For which vehicle, seating position and seat configuration is this belt variant documented as suitable?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "documented-installation-match-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence confirms that the installed buckle and latch plate are the specified mating components?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-installation-match-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mounting-and-belt-path", "name": "Mounting and belt path", "description": "Captures attachment interfaces and routing through guides or adjusters.", "findings": [ { "id": "installed-path-and-attachment-evidence", "name": "Installed path and attachment evidence", "description": "Record where the assembly attaches, how webbing is routed and which installation checks have supporting evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where are the belt's attachment interfaces, guides and adjustable mounting points relative to its seating position?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "installed-path-and-attachment-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which applicable installation checks have been completed, by whom and against which instructions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "installed-path-and-attachment-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "occupant-routing-and-fastening", "name": "Occupant routing and fastening", "description": "Represents the belt's current interaction with an occupant and its fastening mechanism.", "rationale": "Occupancy, latch indication and suitable restraint fit are separate observations that must not be conflated.", "layers": [ { "id": "occupant-belt-fit", "name": "Occupant belt fit", "description": "Records the observed restraint route and adjustment for a particular use configuration.", "findings": [ { "id": "routing-and-adjustment-observation", "name": "Routing and adjustment observation", "description": "Record webbing placement, twists, obstructions and available adjustment against the applicable fit guidance.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is the webbing routed across the occupant and through any guides, and where are twists, slack or obstructions observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "routing-and-adjustment-observation-q01" }, { "text": "Which adjustments are permitted by the instructions for this occupant and seating configuration?", "kind": "action", "id": "routing-and-adjustment-observation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "latch-and-release", "name": "Latch and release", "description": "Separates mechanical fastening observations from electrical indications.", "findings": [ { "id": "engagement-and-release-evidence", "name": "Engagement and release evidence", "description": "Record latch engagement, release operation and any buckle-status indication with their verification methods.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes the current mechanical engagement state, and is a buckle sensor indication recorded separately?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "engagement-and-release-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the buckle release as specified under the applicable checking procedure, or is its operation untested or faulty?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "engagement-and-release-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "webbing-control-and-restraint-devices", "name": "Webbing control and restraint devices", "description": "Records how belt length is managed and which additional restraint mechanisms are fitted.", "rationale": "Retractors, manual adjusters and other restraint devices require configuration-specific interpretation of their observed states.", "layers": [ { "id": "length-management", "name": "Length management", "description": "Captures manual adjustment or retractor behaviour without assuming every belt uses the same mechanism.", "findings": [ { "id": "adjustment-payout-and-locking", "name": "Adjustment, payout and locking", "description": "Record the fitted length-control mechanism and observations made under identified conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What manual adjuster or retractor type is documented, and which operating modes are applicable?", "kind": "definition", "id": "adjustment-payout-and-locking-q01" }, { "text": "What adjustment, payout, retraction and locking behaviour was observed, under which procedure and 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"description": "Connects physical observations and service history to supported decisions about use or intervention.", "rationale": "A belt can appear intact while its history or applicable instructions require further assessment.", "layers": [ { "id": "damage-and-event-evidence", "name": "Damage and event evidence", "description": "Preserves component-level condition observations and relevant historical uncertainty.", "findings": [ { "id": "inspection-and-history-record", "name": "Inspection and history record", "description": "Record webbing, stitching, hardware and mechanism observations alongside collision, activation and alteration history.", "questions": [ { "text": "What cuts, fraying, stitching damage, contamination, deformation, corrosion or functional irregularities were observed, and on which components?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "inspection-and-history-record-q01" }, { "text": "What is known about collision involvement, restraint activation, previous replacement or 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"Non-use, slack, twist, or wearing the shoulder run under the arm or behind the back, all of which raise occupant excursion", "Submarining: the pelvis slides under a loose or poorly angled lap belt so load goes into the abdomen", "Seat-belt syndrome: bowel, mesenteric or lumbar Chance-type injury from a concentrated lap-belt load", "Webbing cut, abrasion at the D-ring, or UV/chemical degradation that lowers remaining strength", "Retractor fails to lock in a crash, or locks spuriously in normal driving", "Buckle not fully latched; pretensioner not replaced after a previous firing", "Load limiter allows too much chest excursion into the airbag or interior", "Adult three-point belt on a small child without a booster, with the webbing across the neck or soft abdomen" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of seat belt this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { 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Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "seat belt airbag", "car seatbelt", "five-point harness" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 61 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one seat belt from another, and a seat belt from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a seat belt, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a seat belt, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a seat belt is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a seat belt, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a seat belt, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a seat belt is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a seat belt sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a seat belt, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a seat belt, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a seat belt is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a seat belt from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a seat belt, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a seat belt, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a seat belt is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a seat belt is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a seat belt, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a seat belt, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a seat belt is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and 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seat belt, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a seat belt is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a seat belt is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a seat belt, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a seat belt, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a seat belt is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a seat belt passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a seat belt between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a seat belt, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a seat belt, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a seat belt is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a seat belt, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a seat belt is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a seat belt, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a seat belt, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a seat belt is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What seat belt is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does seat belt perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise seat belt, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How seat belt is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does seat belt have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does seat belt need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about seat belt is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about seat belt hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern seat belt, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a seat belt came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a seat belt and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a seat belt, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a seat belt, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a seat belt is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a seat belt is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a seat belt, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a seat belt, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a seat belt is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }