Seat belt retractor
AssigneeJoyson Safety Systems Acquisition LLC
InventorsMark GRAY, Steve REED
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Abstract
A seat belt system for protecting an occupant of a vehicle, the system having seat belt webbing connected to a seat belt retractor that includes (a) a frame; (b) a spool with the seat belt webbing wound around, wherein the spool is rotatably mounted to the frame and configured to rotate in a webbing extraction direction and a webbing retraction direction; (c) an energy absorbing device for absorbing energy when the spool is rotated in the webbing extraction direction after an emergency event has occurred; and (d) a mechanism for selectively cancelling the operation of the energy absorbing device by preventing motion of the spool in the webbing extraction direction.
Claims20
A seat belt system for protecting an occupant of a vehicle, the system comprising:
- a belt webbing connected to a seat belt retractor;
- wherein the rectractor includes
- a frame;
- a spool configured to be fixed to one end of a webbing so that the webbing may be wound around the spool, the spool being rotatably mounted at both ends to the frame and configured to rotate in a webbing extraction direction and a webbing retraction direction;
- an energy absorbing device configured to absorb energy when the spool is rotated in the webbing extraction direction after an emergency event has occurred;
- a mechanism for cancelling the operation of the energy absorbing device by preventing motion of the spool in the webbing extraction direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.