Daimler Chrysler Ag

Daimler-benz Ag

Juergen Gimbel

Luigi Brambilla

Walter Jahn

Walter Eberle

Wilfried Bullinger

Markus Hartlieb

Frank Zerrweck

Florent Paviot

Hansjuergen Scholz

A method and system for restraining an occupant on a vehicle seat, the occupant being pulled into the vehicle seat is provided with a force by a belt tensioner when a critical driving state is detected and then held in a pulled-back position on the vehicle seat with a holding force. The holding force selected is lower than the force for pulling the occupant back. A forward-looking detection system for a dangerous driving state and an occupant-position detection system unprovided, in which, when a dangerous driving state is detected, a belt tensioner is subjected to a force and the occupant is thereby pulled into the vehicle seat, and in which the occupant is held in a pulled-back position on the vehicle seat with a holding force which is lower than the force for pulling the occupant back.

Method and safety restraint device for restraining an occupant on a vehicle seat

A mechanism accommodated in a hollow bearer of a vehicle for adjusting the height of an upper deflection fitting for the shoulder belt of a belt system, which includes a slide member steplessly displaceable in guidances of the vehicle hollow bearer; one hollow bearer wall is thereby provided with at least one row of teeth or recesses into which the coordinated teeth of a detent member connected with a deflecton fitting and guided in a recess of the slide member, engage against the action of at least one spring force retaining the detent member in its normal position during those occurring tensional belt forces which exceed the tensional forces acting on the belt by the belt user during normal driving operation; a gliding member is thereby arranged in the slide member so as to be displaceable in height, whereby the gliding member cooperates with the detent member and displaces the same up to its engagement at least approximately transversely to its direction of movement during correspondingly occurring tensional belt forces.

Adjustable upper deflection fitting for a shoulder belt

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Gechingen, Germany

Juergen Gimbel