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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2021
Applicant:
Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc., Westfield, IN (US);
Inventor:
Douglas W. Bittner, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Assignee:
INDIANA MILLS & MANUFACTURING, INC., Westfield, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 22/34 (2006.01); B60P 7/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 22/341 (2013.01); B60P 7/0823 (2013.01);
Abstract
A damped web retractor may include a frame, a spool including a spool shaft rotatably mounted to the frame, wherein the spool is configured to couple to one end of a web such that the web wraps around the spool as the spool shaft rotates relative to the frame in a web take up direction and such that the web unwraps from the spool as the spool shaft rotates in a web pay out direction, and a damper operatively coupled to the spool shaft, the damper configured to resist rotation of the spool shaft in at least one rotational direction.