Abstract: A pivotable steering column is adjustable to any of a number of angular positions defined by the teeth of two elements of a first locking device. A manual lever can be raised to disable the first lock and allow selection of a different steering wheel inclination. The steering wheel can be moved to its uppermost position by lowering the manual lever once. In this case, the first lock maintains engagement of the teeth of the aforementioned two element, and a powerful spring pulls the steering column upward to the uppermost position irrespective of the first lock. A second lock then becomes wedged between the pivotable and stationary parts of the steering column, thus holding the former in the uppermost position. Lowering the manual lever a second time disengages the second lock, allowing the steering column tilt cown from the uppermost position. Thus, the steering column returns to an originally set driving position defined by locking engagement of the first lock.

Abstract: An emergency lock safety belt retractor is designed to facilitate release from an inadvertent lock-up which may occur after full-speed retraction of the seat belt. This undesired lock-up is due to a latch mechanism which locks a belt spool in response to either excessively abrupt onset of extraction, such as may occur in front-end automotive accidents, or excessively abrupt cessation of retraction. This latch mechanism has two separate latches: a simple latch pawl biased away from its latched position and a more complicated lock wheel. The latch pawl is mounted on a rotary drum and in its latched position engages teeth on a stationary drum. The lock wheel is coupled for rotation with the belt spool but is free to move axially through three regimes. The lock wheel is biased toward a first axial regime in which it couples the rotary drum to the belt spool.

Abstract: A semiconductor differential pressure transducer comprises a pair of pressure receiving chambers at both sides of a pressure receiving part, and a pair of compensating chambers and a pair of pressure measuring chambers which are placed in the pressure receiving part, and the pressure receiving chambers communicate with the pressure measuring chambers through the compensating chambers.

Abstract: In a passive restraint seat belt structure wherein a seat belt end is fixed to a slider which is movable along a mounting rail, and which is to be fixed to the rear end of the rail when the door of the vehicle is closed, a locking device for fixing the slider is disclosed. The slider is driven by a driver member which is loosely connected to the slider with a certain amount of free play therebetween. When the slider is driven backwards, the driver member is in a first position relative to the slider which allows engagement between an engagement assembly on the slider and an engagement assembly fixed on the body of the vehicle.

Abstract: A retractor for a seat belt includes a shaft to which a folded, sewed loop portion of the belt end is fastened, and a spool arranged concentrically outside the shaft on which the belt is wound. The spool contains a shaft member having an axially extending slot through which the belt is passed, and an engagement member arranged outside the shaft member to prevent loose winding of the end portion of the belt and consequent slackness in the event of the belt being pulled tight in a collision.

Abstract: A differential pressure transmitter has a pressure receiving portion and a sensor portion which are constituted from separate parts separably jointed with each other. The sensor portion includes a semiconductor sensor having one side formed with a resistance pattern and the other side which has a thick-walled peripheral portion and a thick-walled central portion. The semiconductor sensor is incorporated in the sensor portion as being supported at the thick-walled peripheral portion thereof. The pressure receiving portion includes seal diaphragms disposed on both sides of the pressure receiving portion and a central diaphragm disposed therein. The semiconductor sensor is arranged such that the side thereof carrying the resistance pattern faces the pressure receiving portion.

Abstract: An emergency lock type retractor for a passive safety belt assembly of a vehicle includes a housing (1) mounted on the vehicle body, a reel (3) for the belt (4) rotatably supported by the housing and a ratchet wheel (7) secured to the reel. An inertia device (16) detects an emergent deceleration of the vehicle and causes a pawl (9) to engage with the ratchet wheel to lock the reel and prevent unwinding of the belt. The inertia device includes a first inertia member (19) perpendicularly suspended by the housing to assume a constant angle with respect to the vehicle body. The first inertia member supports a more sensitive second inertia member (22) which displaces relatively to the first inertia member as the vehicle is emergently decelerated. When the mounting angle of the housing varies with respect to the vehicle body, the first inertia member swings to stably maintain the second inertia member at a constant angular position with respect to the vehicle body.

Abstract: A seat belt locking device used with a seat belt arrangement for an automobile vehicle. The locking device locks the seat belt for protecting the driver or passenger from danger when the vehicle is suddenly decelerated in an emergency case such as a collision. The seat belt locking device of the present invention comprises a slidable but unrotatable wedge-shaped seat belt locking member having a pair of roller supporting portions between which a roller is mounted, and a pair of fixed roller shafts the cross section of which is the segment of a circle. The seat belt is so arranged as to pass around the roller of the locking member and the two roller shafts, so that the belt can be firmly caught between the two flat portions of the wedge-shaped seat belt locking member and the respective flat portions of the roller shafts, when the vehicle is suddenly decelerated.

Abstract: A pressure transducer comprising a silicon diaphragm on which a semiconductor strain gauge is formed and which has a diaphragm portion deformable in response to a pressure, an insulating support which is made of borosilicate glass having the silicon diaphragm rigidly mounted thereon and which is provided with a pressure introducing hole in its central part, a metallic support which is cylindrical, which is made of an iron-nickel alloy similar in the thermal expansion coefficient to the borosilicate glass and on which the glass insulating support is rigidly mounted, and a metallic housing within which the integrated structure consisting of the silicon diaphragm, the glass insulating support and the metallic support is arranged; the silicon diaphragm, the insulating support and the metallic support being joined by the anodic bonding, the metallic support being rigidly welded to the metallic housing at its lower end part.

Abstract: A vehicle is fitted with a passive seat belt system which includes a seat belt, an emergency release tongue connected to the seat belt, and a slider which slides to and fro along a guide rail fixed to the vehicle body. An emergency release buckle is coupled to the slider, and is adapted to lock on the emergency release tongue when the emergency release tongue is inserted into it. A slider tongue is connected to the slider, and an anchor buckle is connected to the vehicle body in a position to, and adapted to, lock on the slider tongue, when the slider is in a position along the guide rail to tighten the seat belt about a person seated in the seat to insert the slider tongue into said anchor buckle.

Abstract: A pressure transducer has at least one pressure transmitting space filled with liquid, a space for a pressure to be sensed connected to the pressure transmitting space through a diaphragm, and a pressure sensitive element in the pressure transmitting space for transducing a pressure transmitted from the space for the pressure to be sensed to the pressure transmitting space through the diaphragm to an electrical signal. A printed circuit board wired to electrically connect terminals of the pressure sensitive element is arranged closely to the element and thin temperature sensitive elements for temperature-compensating the pressure sensitive element are arranged on the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A flat clamp plate is fastened to an instrument panel of a vehicle body. A clamp attachment with a top panel is fixed to a telescopically movable part of the steering column and is in slidable engagement with the clamp plate through a hook connection at the front and rear ends thereof. The clamp plate and the clamp attachment are fastened together by means of shear pins which are breakable under a predetermined shearing stress.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of removal of nitrogen oxides, particularly for the use in a cement raw material burning installation, said method comprising the step of introducing the reduction agent for the removal of nitrogen oxides into the zone, where is heated to about to 800.degree. to 1,100.degree. C of a duct connecting between a furnace such as a rotary kiln and the lowermost cyclone of a suspension type heater system, thereby removing nitrogen oxides produced in the burning furnace.