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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary M Ray, Royal Oak, MI (US);
Robert F Rogers, Orion Township, MI (US);
Assignee:
TRW Vehicle Safety Systems Inc., Lyndhurst, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2423753 ;
Abstract
A seat belt webbing retractor (10) includes a belt webbing spool (50) and a length of belt webbing (16) wound on the belt webbing spool. A spring (82) biases the belt webbing spool (50) for rotation in a belt retraction direction. A pair of rotatable cable spools (90, 100) and a cable (110) transmit the biasing force of the spring (82) to the belt webbing spool (50) to apply a retraction force to the belt webbing (116). Each of the cable spools (90, 100) has a predetermined configuration to provide a desired retraction force curve (230).