Key Safety Systems, Inc.

John Joseph Pollard

Brian Schmidt

Jeffrey Young

Tammy Marie Korona

A seat having a seat frame with a seat back designed to prevent injuries to a rear occupant seated behind the seat as the rear occupant moves forward into the seat back during a frontal crash of a vehicle, the seat including a seat back frame part designed to support the back of any occupant but which can rotate during a crash as a rear occupant moves forward into the seat back, the invention including at least one energy absorbing assembly to control the rotary motion of the rotating seat frame part, the rotating frame part maintained in a non-rotating state by an articulating or breakable pin which when moved or broken permits the frame part to rotate as the rear occupant engages the seat frame in response to a frontal vehicular crash.

Seat with energy Absorbing seatback

A seat belt retractor () having a frame with sides () and a cover associated with at least one side, an inertial sensor () positioned between the at least one side of the frame and the cover, a seal located between the cover and the frame side to prevent contaminants from entering a space about the inertial sensor, the inertia sensor including a movable mass () and a magnet () spaced from the mass () to create a magnetic force upon the mass () preventing the magnet from moving excessively if the retractor is subject to predetermined levels of vibration.

Retractor with mud shield and vibration reduction

A multi-point safety belt system is provided with a tension sensor that opens and closes a switch to send a signal indicating the force securing a seat occupant secured by the safety belt system.

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Imlay City, MI, United States of America

John Joseph Pollard