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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:
Feb. 10, 1981
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shuichi Asano, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Nippon Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A62B / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2421072 ; 2421 / ;
Abstract
An emergency locking mechanism for a seat belt retractor comprises a take-up spool biased in a direction to take up the webbing of a seat belt, means for preventing withdrawal of the webbing from the take-up spool during emergency, a rotatable drum disposed parallel to the spool, a drum support bracket rotatably supporting the drum and rotatable about a center of rotation eccentric from that of the drum, drum rotation preventing means, and a fixed plate disposed in proximity to the drum for holding the webbing between the fixed plate and the drum during sudden impact.