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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 1983
Filed:
Mar. 06, 1981
Nissan Motor Company, Limited, Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A seat belt retractor for a safety belt arrangement having a seat belt for reliably restraining and safely protecting a seat belt occupant, comprises belt retracting means for retracting the seat belt, belt slackening means for slackening the seat belt by allowing the seat belt to be pulled out by a predetermined length after the seat belt is retracted and tightened on the seat occupant by the seat belt retracting means; tension eliminating means for permitting the seat belt to assume a tensionless belt position where the seat belt is maintained tensionless after being slackened by the belt slackening means; and tensionless belt position memorizing means for memorizing the tensionless belt position of the seat belt so as to enable the seat belt to be retracted to the tensionless position by the belt retracting means when the seat belt is pulled out beyond the tensionless belt position of the seat belt.