Daimlerchrysler Corporation

Chrysler Corporation

William Mar

Fred Daris

Matthew E Dukatz

Christopher J Pesta

Gary Bityk

John C Rust

Randall J Ryszewski

Gregory A Beecher

Thomas Drobot

Frederick R Shaver

Adrian L Ashcroft

White David

A passenger airbag assembly is provided with a guide chute. The chute guides a deploying airbag to a door in the instrument panel. The door comprises steel inserts molded into the material of the door. The steel inserts include three slots spaced apart to absorb stress. To reinforce the hinges of the door, a guide or reinforcement ledge is provided at the sides. To reinforce the ledge, ramps are provided on the underside of the ledge.

Passenger airbag assembly

An anti-roping turning loop is provided for a vehicle seatbelt. The turning loop defines a guide slot which is provided with anti-roping projections which prevent twisting of the seatbelt web.

Anti-roping turning loop

An automotive seat belt buckle pretensioner assembly includes a special mounting bracket for supporting the operating components of a pyrotechnic-powered cable extending from the seat belt buckle around a cable-redirection pulley. The mounting bracket includes a flat major wall that is parallel to a major wall on the pulley support structure, so that the pulley is located within the space defined by the parallel walls. A bolt, or rivet, extending between the parallel walls provides shaft support for the pulley, while acting as a connector mechanism between the pulley support structure and mounting bracket.

Seat belt buckle pretensioner mounting mechanism

An automotive seat belt buckle pretensioner is economically mounted on a seat structure with a bracket structure that includes a first major wall securable to an available mounting surface, a second major wall offset horizontally from the first wall mounting the operating components of the pretensioner, and a horizontal connector wall joining the first and second major walls. The bracket can be reconfigured to meet different mounting surface availabilities and installation space requirements.

An improved seat belt latchplate having a plurality or ribs in a web-guiding slot for resisting, roping and twisting of a seat belt webbing.

Seat belt latchplate

A method and apparatus for mounting an article such as a child seat tether to a vehicle floor comprising a mounting bar, first and second mounting brackets connected to the mounting bar, the brackets capable of connecting to preexisting seat attachment points of a vehicle floor, a plurality of tether attachment points on the mounting bar, and a mounting bar attachable to any of the attachment points.

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Clinton Township, MI, United States of America

William Mar