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US 10,369,962 B2Granted
Restraint system
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsMohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi, Saeed David Barbat, James Chih Cheng, Robert William McCoy, Mohamed Ridha Baccouche
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Abstract
A restraint system includes a housing, a spool rotatably coupled to the housing, a pinion fixed to the spool, a rack engaged with the pinion, and a piston attached to the rack and the housing. The piston is filled with a resilient material. The resilient material may be a heterogeneous mixture of a liquid and hydrophobic, nanoporous particles.
Claims20
A restraint system comprising:
- a housing;
- a spool rotatably coupled to the housing;
- a pinion fixed to the spool;
- a rack engaged with the pinion;
- and
- a piston attached to the rack and the housing and filled with a heterogeneous mixture of a liquid and hydrophobic, nanoporous particles.
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A restraint system comprising:
- a housing;
- a spool rotatably coupled to the housing;
- a pinion fixed to the spool;
- a rack engaged with the pinion;
- and
- a piston including a piston head attached to the rack and a piston cylinder attached to the housing, the piston head and the piston cylinder defining a volume filled with a resilient material;
- wherein the piston head is movable in the piston cylinder between a first position and a second position in which the volume is smaller than the first position, the resilient material biasing the piston head from the second position to the first position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.