Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.

Nathan Andrew Beadle

Chris P Jessup

Brian Nelson Coffman

Matthew Grubbs Farrar

Wei X Zhang

A web length adjuster may include a frame having a base and spaced-apart sidewalls each extending away from the base, a reaction bar mounted to and between the sidewalls and defining a first web clamping surface extending at least partially along a length of the reaction bar between the sidewalls of the frame, and a handle assembly rotatably mounted to and between the sidewalls and defining a second web clamping surface extending at least partially along a length of the handle assembly between the sidewalls of the frame, the handle assembly rotatable relative to the frame between a first position to clamp a web of a vehicle occupant restraint web between the first and second clamping surfaces and a second position to allow the web to pass between the first and second clamping surfaces. The first and second clamping surfaces may define opposite curvatures in transverse cross-section.

Web length adjuster

An electrically releasable buckle assembly () for a motor vehicle restraint () may include latch components () configured to releasably engage a tongue member (B) of the motor vehicle restraint (), a release button () operatively coupled to the latch components (), the release button () having a latched position in which the latching components engage the tongue member (B) and a release position in which the latch components () release the tongue member (B), an electrical energy source (), at least one shape memory alloy component () operatively coupled to the release button (), the at least one shape memory alloy component () responsive to heating thereof by electrical energy supplied by the source () to a temperature at or above a transition temperature thereof to move the release button () from the latched position to the release position, and means () for selectively supplying electrical energy from the electrical energy source () to the at least one shape memory alloy component ().

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Westfield, IN, United States of America

Nathan Andrew Beadle