Multi-spool seatbelt retractor
AssigneeHonda R&D Americas, Inc.
InventorsDerek Lindsay, Kenneth Pilcher
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Abstract
A seatbelt retractor for storing seatbelt webbing that can be utilized to restrain an occupant of a motor vehicle. The retractor includes a retractor frame and a plurality of spools rotatably coupled to the retractor frame and spaced a distance apart from each other. Seatbelt webbing can be withdrawn from the seatbelt retractor to extend about an occupant of a seat of the motor vehicle and releasably coupled to a buckle provided to the motor vehicle in a withdrawn state, and collected by the seatbelt retractor in a retracted state. A length of the seatbelt webbing adjacent to a terminal end thereof is collected at least partially around the plurality of spools in the retracted state.
Claims8
A seatbelt retractor for storing seatbelt webbing that can be utilized to restrain an occupant of a motor vehicle comprising:
- a retractor frame;
- a plurality of spools rotatably coupled to the retractor frame and spaced a distance apart from each other;
- seatbelt webbing that can be withdrawn from the seatbelt retractor to extend about an occupant of a seat of the motor vehicle and releasably coupled to a buckle provided to the motor vehicle in a withdrawn state, and collected by the seatbelt retractor in a retracted state, wherein
- a length of the seatbelt webbing adjacent to a terminal end thereof is collected at least partially around the plurality of spools in the retracted state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.