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US 11,370,389 B2Granted
Passenger restraint pretensioner
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsDean M. Jaradi, S. M. Iskander Farooq, Mohammad Omar Faruque
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Abstract
An assembly includes a housing. The assembly includes a spool rotatable relative to the housing. The assembly includes a cable fixed to the spool. The assembly includes a passenger restraint fixed to the cable. The assembly includes a pyrotechnic device fixed relative to the housing and designed to rotate the spool relative to the housing. The assembly includes a ratchet-and-pawl mechanism between the housing and the spool.
Claims19
An assembly comprising:
- a housing;
- a spool rotatable relative to the housing;
- a cable fixed to the spool;
- a passenger restraint fixed to the cable;
- a pyrotechnic device fixed to the housing and designed to rotate the spool relative to the housing;
- and
- a ratchet-and-pawl mechanism between the housing and the spool;
- the housing and the spool define a cavity therebetween and the pyrotechnic device has an output nozzle in communication with the cavity.
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An assembly comprising:
- a housing;
- a spool rotatable relative to the housing;
- a cable fixed to the spool;
- a passenger restraint fixed to the cable;
- a pyrotechnic device fixed to the housing and designed to rotate the spool relative to the housing;
- and
- a ratchet-and-pawl mechanism between the housing and the spool;
- a first cable stop fixed to the cable and a second cable stop fixed to the housing, the second cable stop having a hole through which the cable slidably extends from the first cable stop to the spool, the hole being smaller than the first cable stop.
5 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.