Belt assembly including payout measurement
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsJialiang Le, Manoharprasad K. Rao, Srinivasan Sundararajan
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Abstract
A belt assembly includes a belt retractor, a sensor having a detection field, and a belt retractably payable from the belt retractor through the detection field. The belt has a webbing and a plurality of markers fixed to the webbing. The webbing has a longitudinal length and the markers are equally spaced along the longitudinal length of the webbing. The sensor senses the length of the webbing paid out. A size of the occupant may be determined based on the length of the webbing paid out, and the size of the occupant may be used to classify the occupant in classes.
Claims19
A belt assembly comprising:
- a belt retractor;
- a sensor having a detection field;
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- a belt retractably payable from the belt retractor through the detection field, the belt having a webbing and a plurality of markers fixed to the webbing;
- the webbing having a longitudinal length, the markers being equally spaced along the longitudinal length of the webbing.
A belt assembly comprising:
- a belt retractor;
- a belt retractably payable from the belt retractor, the belt having a webbing and a plurality of markers fixed to the webbing, the webbing having a longitudinal length, the markers being equally spaced along the longitudinal length of the webbing;
- an anchor point spaced from the belt retractor and slideably receiving the webbing;
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- a sensor adjacent the anchor point and positioned to detect the markers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.