Seat belt retractor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12043209-B2
Application number	US-201917292030-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 29, 2019
Priority date	Nov 8, 2018
Publication date	Jul 23, 2024
Grant date	Jul 23, 2024

Abstract

A seat belt retractor, with a belt shaft mounted rotatably in a frame, a blocking device for blocking the belt shaft in an extension direction of the seat belt, a control device having a control disc with a toothing for activating the blocking device, an electric actuator with a first blocking lever, which is spring-loaded into the toothing of the control disc in an engagement direction, an ECL blocking lever which, in a first position, blocks the first blocking lever of the actuator during a first belt band extension in a position in which said blocking lever does not engage in the toothing of the control disc, and an LC blocking lever which, in a first position, blocks the first blocking lever of the actuator when a predetermined belt band extension length is fallen short of in a first position.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A seat belt retractor comprising
a belt shaft which is mounted rotatably in a frame and on which a seat belt can be wound, and
a blocking device for blocking the belt shaft in the extension direction of the seat belt, and
a control device having a control disk with a toothing for activating the blocking device, and
an electric actuator having a first blocking lever spring-loaded into the toothing of the control disk in the engagement direction, and
an ECL blocking lever which, in a first position, blocks the first blocking lever of the actuator during a first belt strap extension in a position in which it does not engage in the toothing of the control disk, and
an LC blocking lever, which, in a first position when the belt strap extension length falls short of a predetermined length, blocks the first blocking lever of the actuator in a first position in which it does not engage in the toothing of the control disk and, when the belt strap extension length exceeds the predetermined length, is moved by means of a switching device into a second position in which it does not block the first blocking lever, wherein
the LC blocking lever and/or a carrier plate of the LC blocking lever have a blocking contour which is shaped in such a way that the ECL blocking lever comes to rest thereon in a second position releasing the first blocking lever when the LC blocking lever is arranged in the second position.

2. The seat belt retractor according to claim 1 , wherein
the switching device is realized in the form of a counting gear which is coupled to the belt shaft and which controls the movement of the LC blocking lever as a function of the belt strap extension length.

3. The seat belt retractor according to claim 2 , wherein
the counting gear comprises an annular toothing which is driven by the belt shaft and is arranged eccentrically to an annular counter toothing and meshes circumferentially on the counter toothing during the rotation of the belt shaft and thereby drives the counter toothing to a reduced rotational movement.

4. The seat belt retractor according to claim 3 , wherein
at least one trip cam, which controls the movement of the LC blocking lever, is provided on the counter toothing.

5. The seat belt retractor according to claim 2 , wherein
the counting gear has a driving drive gear and at least one driven gear meshing with the driving drive gear, wherein
the driven gear is arranged on a pivotable rocker with a switching contour, and
the drive gear and/or the driven gear have at least one trip cam which, in a predetermined rotational angle position of the drive gear and of the driven gear, force/forces a switching movement of the rocker and thereby control/controls the movement of the LC blocking lever.

6. The seat belt retractor according to claim 2 , wherein
an ALR/ELR switching mechanism is provided which is controlled by the counting gear as a function of the belt strap extension length.

Assignees

• Autoliv Dev

Inventors

• Glässer Antto-Christian
• Hueg Markus
• Künzler Florian

Classifications

• B60R22/48

  Control systems, alarms, or interlock systems, for the correct application of the belt or harness · CPC title

• B60R22/41

  with additional means for preventing locking {during unwinding} under predetermined conditions · CPC title

• B60R22/46 Primary

  {Reels} with means to tension the belt in an emergency {by forced winding up}(electrical circuits for triggering safety arrangements B60R21/01 {; tensioners using reels only guiding the belt during normal use, e.g. splitted reels B60R22/195}) · CPC title

• B60R22/343 Primary

  with electrically actuated locking means {(B60R22/3405 takes precedence)} · CPC title