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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 08, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Artur Fohl, Schorndorf, DE;
Assignee:
TRW Occupant Restraint Systems GmbH, Alfdorf, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
280806 ; 60632 ; 60638 ; 188371 ; 297480 ;
Abstract
In an energy converter in a restraining system for vehicle occupants a particularly smooth profile of the force as a function of the travel is achieved in that a plastic deformation of a tubular converter body (10) is effected which has a circular cross-sectional form in the undeformed state. Two symmetrically oppositely disposed rollers (18) are provided which each bear on a ramp face of a piston element (14).