Seat belt pre-tensioner assembly

Details Seat belt pre-tensioner assembly Seat belt pre-tensioner assembly

1997-04-30

1999-11-16

English, Peter C.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

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297480, B60R 2246

Patent

active

059843578

ABSTRACT:
In a pre-tensioner assembly for automatically increasing a tension of a seat belt in case of a vehicle crash, an arm is pivotally attached to a base plate at its one end and to a part of a seat belt, and a cylinder and piston device is attached to the base plate to selectively rotate the arm from a rest position to an operative position. Typically, the cylinder and piston device comprises a linear cylinder having a propellant placed in a bottom end thereof. The rotary arm for displacing a buckle or other part of the seat belt can be substantially directly connected to the piston of the actuator, and because the piston rod is pushed out of the cylinder when actuating the rotary arm, the pressure receiving surface of the piston can be maximized. Therefore, the power transmission efficiency is improved, and the required amount of the propellant can be reduced with the result that the size and the cost of the assembly can be minimized.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4705296 (1987-11-01), Andersson et al.
patent: 5039127 (1991-08-01), Fohl
patent: 5152552 (1992-10-01), Ikegaya
patent: 5651564 (1997-07-01), Isaji et al.

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