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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 1988
Filed:
May. 16, 1986
Hideyuki Nagashima, Yokohama, JP;
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
In a seat belt retractor including a housing, a take-up shaft rotatably mounted in the housing, a spring for biasing the take-up shaft in a belt retracting direction, a gear mechanism operatively connected to the belt take-up shaft, a tensionless mechanism operatively connected to the gear mechanism and selectively operable to prevent the spring from rotating the take-up shaft in the belt retracting direction, and a motor actuated slack control mechanism operatively connected to the gear mechanism and operable to rotate the belt take-up shaft, there is provided a control unit comprising a computer which suppresses an automatic belt slack feeding operation when the vehicle speed is at or above a predetermined value, for example, 60 km/h.