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https://drivepatents.com/patents/1080749 · 19 Jan 2005
A pretensioner for a vehicle safety restraint arrangement, the pretensioner comprising a piston mounted in a guide chamber for translational movement tangentially to a spool shaft, so that in travelling through the guide chamber, the piston engages the per...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1084133 · 8 Sep 2004
A device regulates or controls an occupant restraint system of a motor vehicle in dependence on a pulling force acting on a seat belt (21). The force is measured between a subassembly (28, 29; 20, 34) anchored to the vehicle structure and another subassemb...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1084919 · 11 Aug 2004
An airbag deployment rate sensor employs a tape or string (34) that is wound on a spool (26; 112) and connected to the fabric of an airbag (17) so that as the airbag deploys, tape or string is pulled from the spool causing it to rotate. A brake (48; 68; 84...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1085784 · 7 Jul 2004
A U-shaped frame (1) for a vehicle safety restraint retractor comprising two spaced arms (9) made from a material of a predetermined thickness and having a cut-out (2) in the material of each arm (9) for receiving a lockbar (3), wherein the cut-out (2) has...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1086077 · 23 Jun 2004
An airbag module (20) utilizes tape dispensing cartridges (40; 94; 138). A tape end extends from each cartridge to the inside surface of an airbag (22). As the airbag inflates, tape (36) is drawn from the tape cartridges as the tapes are drawn along with t...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1088203 · 7 Apr 2004
A locking unit locks a spool (1) to a lock wheel (6) against rotation on sensing a crash, a force limiter allowing further pay-out of the seat belt webbing after the spool has locked under the influence of an occupant's forward momentum. A force limiter co...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1089200 · 3 Mar 2004
A calibration spring tension adjuster for a seat belt tension sensor comprising a fixed part (1), a movable part (2), a calibration spring (3), and a holder (4), wherein the fixed part (1) and the movable part (2) are adjacent to each other and comprise mu...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1091107 · 17 Dec 2003
An automotive seat belt cable (2) is tightened by a drive (6) acting along a first axis (3) and then through an angled guide through a second axis linked (5) to the belt. The angle through which the cable (2) translates via the guide (4) esp. intersects wi...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1091091 · 17 Dec 2003
A low onset dual stage hybrid inflator (10) has a diffuser subassembly (22), a gas generator subassembly (23), and a pressure vessel (12). The dual stage inflator offers a variety of different output levels of inflation gas. The four main deployment scenar...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1091042 · 17 Dec 2003
A pretensioner for a vehicle safety restraint comprising a piston (2), a cylinder (1) housing the piston (2), a force reservoir (12), activatable when a crash is sensed, to drive the piston (2) along the cylinder (1), a resilient band (7) connected to the ...