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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:
Jun. 30, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 06, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Takata Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2423791 ;
Abstract
A seat belt retractor is formed of a base frame, a reel shaft rotatably supported by the base frame, a locking member for locking rotation of the reel shaft to prevent the webbing from unwinding at a collision, and an energy absorbing member for absorbing impact energy against a vehicle occupant. The energy absorbing member allows a predetermined length of the webbing to be drawn out with a certain tensile load held on the webbing only when reaction forces acting on the locking member exceed a predetermined threshold.