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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2002
David Charles Viano, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Joseph D. McCleary, Clinton Township, Macomb County, MI (US);
Edward Aloysius Jedrzejczak, Brown City, MI (US);
William E. Thomas, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Richard A. McCormick, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Mark J. Sawade, Linden, MI (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A new and improved seat belt retractor system having an electronic control unit which is adapted to receive a signal from a sensor responsive to the buckling of the seat belt and causes an electric motor acting through a chain drive to drivingly rotate a reel in one direction for providing a predetermined seat belt loading on the seat occupant and that is responsive to the braking of the vehicle under emergency conditions to increase the tensioning of the seat belt to a level that exceeds the predetermined seat belt loading.