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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Autoliv Asp, Inc., Ogden, UT (US);
Kevin Joseph Dewey, Shelby Township, MI (US);
Thomas James Herbert, Fenton, MI (US);
Jan Pontus Söderström, Rochester, MI (US);
AUTOLIV ASP, INC., Ogden, UT (US);
Abstract
A seatbelt restraint system includes a seatbelt buckle housing having a printed circuit board, a slider, and an ejector. The printed circuit board includes a circuit where the output signal can be altered in response to translation of the ejector and the slider. A predetermined voltage can be applied to the circuit and the output signal can be detected in the circuit to determine the position of the ejector and the slider based on the detected altered output signal. In the event of a fault in the system, the resultant output signal of the circuit will be different than the expected output signal of the buckled and unbuckled states.