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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 1980
Filed:
Oct. 16, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Albert R Close, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
American Safety Equipment Corporation, San Fernando, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A62B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
280803 ; 2421074 ; 280806 ;
Abstract
A fail-safe lock-up inhibitor for a vehicle door-mounted passive safety belt retractor. The improved inhibitor is formed of a plurality of mutually overriding inhibiting structure such that when the vehicle door is open, each alone is capable of allowing lock-up of the safety-belt protraction mechanism during an emergency condition.