Alliedsignal Inc.

Other

Breed Automotive Technology, Inc.

Bsrd Limited

Ian Alexander Gordon

Howard James Foster

Alan George Smithson

David Burke

Donald E Armstrong

Martin Palliser

David Eric Chicken

Howard J Foster

Raymond G Evans

Stephen Armstrong

A buckle for a vehicle safety restraint for use with a pretensioner has an actuating button for operating a latch for the tongue of the safety restraint. The button is connected via pulleys to a counterbalancing mass. When the pretensioner is operated and the buckle is retracted, the inertia of the mass counteracts the inertia of the button. Thus the button is prevented from moving in relation to the buckle in a direction which would tend to unlatch the tongue of the safety restraint.

Safety belt buckle

Guide loop height adjustment for vehicle passenger seat belts

A pretensioner for a vehicle safety restraint comprises a cylindrical hollow tube, a piston member located within the tube and connected via a cable to a part of the vehicle safety restraint, and a pyrotechnic charge which is activated in the event of a collision to evolve a volume of gas within the tube to move the piston from one end of the tube to the other, wherein a pressure relief port is provided in the tube at a point along its length which is close to the end of the tube toward which the piston is moved on activation of the pyrotechnic charge.

Mechanical shock reduction in pretensioners

Passenger safety restraint with pretensioner

An emergency locking passenger seat belt retractor is fitted with a pyrotechnic pretensioner actuator (221) which acts via a cable wound on a drum (213), the drum being located on frangible supports in a clutch housing and having internally formed cam surfaces which can act upon frangibly supported intermediate rollers (215) to displace them generally radially inwards to drivingly engage a part of the webbing reel to tighten the belt. Advantageously the drum and the locking rollers are supported on frangible pegs moulded with shim or plate members (222a, 222b), disposed on each side of the drum (213).

Seat belt retractor with pre-tensioner

A pretensioner latching mechanism having a main anchorage member (45) to be fixed to a frame (60) of a slideably adjustable vehicle seat, a further member (52) slideable along the first member under the action of a remote vehicle body mounted pretensioner through a bowden cable (49; 50) to shorten and latch an anchorage assembly (41, 42, 43, 45) by virtue of abutment of a spring loaded latch member (56) with one of a succession of abutments provided by apertures (46) of the main anchorage member.

Pretensioning latching mechanism

A Christmas tree stand comprises a lower, upwardly-open, downwardly-tapering socket for receiving the lower end of the trunk of the tree, an outer wall surrounding the socket and a top wall of a resilient plastics material capping the outer wall. A central aperture is formed through the top wall to overlie the socket and of a diameter substantially equal to that of the smallest trunk to be received within the stand, a plurality of substantially radial slots being formed in the top wall to define a plurality of leaves each of generally truncated sector shape and resiliently yieldable on the insertion therethrough and withdrawal therefrom of the trunk.

Christmas tree stand

Growing community of inventors

Carlisle, United Kingdom

Ian Alexander Gordon