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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 20, 1998
Wendell C Lane, Jr, Romeo, MI (US);
Kenneth H Kohlndorfer, Roseville, MI (US);
Mark F Gray, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Markell Seitzman, Orchard Lake, MI (US);
Jon E Burrow, Clawson, MI (US);
Breed Automotive Technology, Inc., Lakeland, FL (US);
Abstract
A belt tightening device (100/100') for use with a safety device such as a seat belt buckle: a flexible member (12), such as an anchoring length of seat belt webbing, operatively connected to the safety device (34); a housing (102) including a first opening (110) through which the flexible member loosely extends; first and second relatively movable clamping members (160, 162) for causing a portion of the flexible member extending from the housing to be drawn into the housing thereby shortening the remaining length of the flexible member causing a safety belt operatively attached to or part of the flexible member to become more tightly disposed about a user thereof.