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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 1981
Filed:
May. 11, 1979
Wilfried Schwanz, Ahnsen, DE;
Ulrich Seiffert, Brunswick, DE;
Volkswagenwerk AG, Wolfsburg, DE;
Abstract
A passive safety belt arrangement for a vehicle includes a safety belt articulately connected to a slide. The slide is acted on by a slide-positioning device so as to move it in a guide fastened to the frame of the vehicle in the region of a door opening next to a seat. The slide is driven between an off position in which the safety belt is raised away from the body of a passenger in the seat and a restraining position in which the belt contacts the passenger's body. The belt is locked in the restraining position by a swiveling locking pawl acted upon by a spring so as to urge it into engagement with the slide. A cam-like projection on the locking pawl is contacted during a permissible movement of the slide by the slide-positioning devices so as to swivel the locking pawl out of engagement with the slide.