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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2014
Autoliv Asp, Inc., Ogden, UT (US);
Robert E. Ver Hoven, Harsens Island, MI (US);
Timothy J. Cahill, Dryden, MI (US);
Jon E. Burrow, Ortonville, MI (US);
Matthias Bäker, Hamburg, DE;
AUTOLIV ASP, INC., Ogden, UT (US);
Abstract
A guide that can be included as part of a pretensioner for a motor vehicle belt restraint system. The pretensioner includes a frame having walls that define an interior compartment. Located within the interior compartment is a piston assembly having a gas generator in communication with a piston. The gas generator creates an expanding gas that causes movement of the piston and applies tension to a seatbelt of the belt restraint system. The guide includes an opening through which the seatbelt passes and that causes the seatbelt to form a reduced width configuration upon exiting the guide.