Locking pawl
AssigneeTRW Occupant Restraint Systems GmbH & Co. KG
InventorHermann-Karl Weller
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Abstract
A locking pawl for a mechanism for blocking a belt retractor of a safety belt comprises a first locking pawl element made of a first material and adapted to block said belt retractor, and a second locking pawl element made of a second material and adapted to control a movement of said locking pawl. The first material is different from the second material.
Claims9
A locking pawl for a mechanism for blocking a belt retractor of a safety belt, the improvement consisting in that said locking pawl comprises a first locking pawl element made of a first material and adapted to block said belt retractor, and a second locking pawl element made of a second material and adapted to control a movement of said locking pawl, wherein said first material is different from said second material.
The locking pawl as claimed in 6, wherein said first locking pawl element has a through hole and said second locking pawl element has a pin which engages in said through hole, in order to provide for securing a connection between said first locking pawl element and said second locking pawl element against a lateral displacement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.