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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2021
Autoliv Asp, Inc., Ogden, UT (US);
Jon E. Burrow, Ortonville, MI (US);
Daniel Robert Murphy, Oxford, MI (US);
Bin Wang, Lake Orion, MI (US);
AUTOLIV ASP, INC., Ogden, UT (US);
Abstract
A seatbelt pretensioner system for use in a seatbelt retractor assembly having a spindle includes a frame assembly having a frame and an attachment bracket adapted to be interlocked to have an inner space for receiving the spindle, a housing adapted for being mounted to the frame and having an interior cavity, a pretensioner tube having a first tube end in fluid communication with a gas generator and a second tube end in fluid communication with the interior cavity of the housing, a pinion being rotatably mounted in the housing and fixedly coupled to the spindle adapted for taking up seatbelt webbing during pretensioning, and a pretensioner rod disposed inside the pretensioner tube. Further, the pretensioner rod has a proximal end disposed towards the gas generator and a distal end disposed away from the gas generator.