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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2003
Harald S. Husby, Lakeland, FL (US);
Key Safety Systems, Inc., Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Abstract
An airbag deployment sensor stores a quantity of tape which is drawn out of a cartridge during airbag deployment by one end of the tape which is attached to the inside surface of an airbag. To facilitate assembly of an airbag system, the cartridge is designed with a key for locking the tape against premature extraction from the cartridge during the assembly process. The cartridge is used in combination with a mounting bracket which assures that the tape is free to be extracted from the cartridge once the cartridge is mounted to the bracket because, either the cartridge cannot be mounted to the bracket with the key in place, or the mounting bracket causes the key to move to a non-locking position.