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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2019
Joyson Safety Systems Acquisition Llc, Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Mark Gray, Macomb, MI (US);
JOYSON SAFETY SYSTEMS ACQUISITION LLC, Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A seatbelt retractor for a seat belt device in a vehicle. The retractor includes a frame and a spool configured to be fixed to one end of a seat belt webbing so that the webbing may be wound around the spool. The spool is rotatably mounted at both ends to the frame and configured to rotate in a webbing extraction direction and a webbing retraction direction. The retractor includes a staged torsion bar positioned end to end in the spool along an axis of rotation of the spool. The retractor also includes a shift assembly to shift between the stages of the staged torsion bar. The shift assembly includes a shift link locked by a shift collar and a shift ring meshed in a shift plate.