Patents Assigned to Autoflug GmbH
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Patent number: 4589172Abstract: A central belt lock, particularly for a parachute harness, includes a housing, a main pin or journal which is manually rotatable and axially movable therein, and an anchor plate which cooperates with a plurality of retaining bolts for the belt attachment or coupling members. There is dealt with the problem of allowing the belt attachment members to be released and thus disconnected from the lock even if the parachutist for some reason is unable to actuate the lock manually, after making a jump over the sea. Therefore, a central belt lock is provided to be activated by sea water and can be released thereby, without affecting the function thereof when operated manually. For this purpose, the main journal (2a) has at least one longitudinal bore in which a push rod (12) is mounted so as to be longitudinally movable. An actuator (20, 27) is associated with the push rod and is actuated when coming into contact with water, axially moving the push rod (12) and hence the anchor plate (5) with the retaining bolts (6).Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1983Date of Patent: May 20, 1986Assignee: Autoflug GmbHInventors: Michael Hoenigs, Hermann Reuschenbach
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Patent number: 4585190Abstract: The compressed-gas device for the life-saving services which can be activated by water, more especially the automatic separating coupling for parachutes, comprises a channel (9) and two detector chambers (10, 11) which, via openings (12, 13), are connected to the channel (9) and, via openings (14, 15), are connected to one respective opposite outer surface (16, 17) of the device. The cross-section of the outwardly directed openings (14, 15) is larger than that of the connection openings (12, 13) to the channel (9). Only when the measuring block (2) is completely immersed in water are three pairs of electrodes (18, 19; 20, 21; 22, 23) bridged by water so that a fuel-gas charge is ignited via an electric circuit (7) with the aid of an igniter (8) (FIG. 2).Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1984Date of Patent: April 29, 1986Assignee: Autoflug GmbHInventor: Holger Hansen
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Patent number: 4577378Abstract: A buckle for safety belts, especially in motor vehicles. The buckle has a housing and a tongue which can be inserted in an opening of the latter, can be locked in the housing by at least one latching member, and is stressed by a spring-loaded ejector. To be prevented is the technical of the rattling against one another of the housing and the buckle tongue. For this purpose, at least one spring element is disposed in the housing in the vicinity of the insertion opening for the buckle tongue. At least one abutment surface of the spring element projects laterally into the path which is to be traversed by the buckle tongue upon insertion in such a way that the tongue is acted upon transverse to the direction of insertion or ejection.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1984Date of Patent: March 25, 1986Assignee: Autoflug GmbHInventor: Holger Harenberg
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Patent number: 4564219Abstract: An apparatus for adjusting the height of the upper fixing or guide fitting for the shoulder belt of a safety belt system, particularly in motor vehicles. The apparatus includes a guide rail mounted on part of the vehicle body, and has a guide slot and recesses in which at least one associated locking member engages. This locking member is mounted on a sliding member which carries the fixing or guide fitting and is capable of being locked in or released from the recesses via a handle. The locking member or locking members are symmetrical in construction with regard to their locking function, are mounted on the sliding member, and are operative in the guide rail, and especially are operative on both sides of the central longitudinal line of the guide rail. Moreover, the handle is designed, by a finger pressure construction, to be operated with substantially no force of the hand and arm, using one hand.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1983Date of Patent: January 14, 1986Assignee: Autoflug GmbHInventors: Hans Baden, Klaus Kuhnemann, Gerhard Sedlmayr, Klaus Straszewski, Monika Zeumer
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Patent number: 4560204Abstract: A device for adjusting the height of the upper mounting or guide fitting of a motor-vehicle safety belt. The device includes a guide rail having arresting openings arranged above one another on both sides, and a slide which is movable in the guide rail, carries the mounting or guide fitting, and has locking elements which are displaceable transversely to the direction of movement of the slide, against spring pressure, from a locking position into an unlocked position via at least one push button. Problems to be overcome, on the one hand, include being able to carry out convenient and safe adjustment by hand and, on the other hand, preventing automatic adjustment as a result of uncontrollable external influences.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1983Date of Patent: December 24, 1985Assignee: Autoflug GmbHInventors: Monika Zeumer, Klaus Straszewski
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Patent number: 4540987Abstract: An aerial towed battle target having a mechanism for radar detection and including a hollow body which is reinforced in the front in a ring-like manner and is composed of sewn together woven lengths of fabric into which are integrated elongated metal elements. The hollow body has a base and towing gear associated with the front. The problem with heretofore known targets is locating and taking bearings with shortwave radio beams during approach and take-off when the direction of flight coincides extensively with the beam direction. To improve the inventive target in this respect, the elongated metal elements are contained in the fabric lengths as weft threads which are disposed essentially transverse to the direction of towing. These metal weft threads are incorporated between the woven weft threads, with the spacing between the metal threads increasing over the length of a woven fabric pattern uniformly from a relatively small dimension to a relatively large dimension.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 1984Date of Patent: September 10, 1985Assignee: Autoflug GmbHInventors: Heinz Werkes, Hubert Nohren
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Patent number: 4518174Abstract: An apparatus for adjusting the height of the upper fixing or guide fitting for the shoulder belt of a safety belt system, particularly in motor vehicles. The apparatus has a mechanism for automatically adjusting the vertical position of the fitting to the sitting position of the person who is to be strapped in, and there is the problem that a strict correlation between the setting of the seat in question and the vertical position of the associated fixing or guide fitting cannot take account of every combination of physical proportions and sitting positions to produce an optimum belt angle at which the belt meets the shoulder of the wearer. One reason for this is that even the associated columns or uprights of cars vary in their positions.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 1982Date of Patent: May 21, 1985Assignee: Autoflug GmbHInventor: Gerhard Sedlmayr
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Patent number: 4518131Abstract: An inertial mass having the shape of a metallic ring is held by projections provided on an inertial element. The element is composed of two associated parts, one of which produces the desired inertia. The parts are connected by a snap fit. In one embodiment, the ring includes a curved metallic wire having a gap into which a flange or projection of the inertial element projects.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 1982Date of Patent: May 21, 1985Assignee: Autoflug GmbHInventors: Klaus Butenop, Klaus-Peter Singer
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Patent number: 4509707Abstract: A self-locking belt reeling device for, in particular, motor vehicle safety belts is provided and includes a housing and a belt rewinding shaft, the latter being mounted in the former in a manner preventing axial movement but allowing radial movement under the action of locking-forces, with the ends of the shaft extending through apertures in the housing and being respectively provided with a disc, preferably a toothed disc, in the plane of each of the apertures, at least one of these discs, when locking-forces occur, engaging in a fixed internal toothing of one aperture. The second aperture has a recess for a latch which is mounted therein, this latch being capable of being pivoted into the cross-section of the aperture and into the toothing of the toothed disc associated with this aperture. An actuating element is located on the latch, this element being controlled by the self-locking device.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 1983Date of Patent: April 9, 1985Assignee: AUTOFLUG GmbHInventors: Hans-Hellmut Ernst, Holger Seel
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Patent number: 4508289Abstract: A roll-up device, particularly for safety belts used in vehicles. The device provides a so-called automatic belt blocker with belt-sensitive and/or vehicle-sensitive blocking of the belt winding spindle, which is provided with a projection which cooperates with a locking member, which in turn can be locked in place via detents which engage with notches associated with a housing. There is the problem that, in the event of high belt forces, the locking member will slip away from the projection, and thus from the notches of the housing, thereby freeing the blockage. The aim of the invention is therefore to prevent the locking member from breaking out of its predetermined position in this way. To solve this problem, at least one overlapping arrangement is provided between the projection of the belt winding spindle, and the radially deflectable locking member, to ensure that the locking member does not move out of its position in the axial direction of the belt winding spindle during blocking.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 1981Date of Patent: April 2, 1985Assignee: Autoflug GmbHInventors: Klaus-Peter Singer, Klaus Butenop
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Patent number: 4461434Abstract: A self-locking belt reeling mechanism for buckle-on safety belts, particularly safety belts in motor vehicles. The mechanism has a spindle which is mounted in a housing, is subjected to spring tension, and on which the belt can be rolled up, and an inertial locking member which is eccentrically mounted on one end of the spindle and which, in the event of a predetermined acceleration in the rotation of the spindle in the direction of unrolling of the belt, moves outwards and makes contact with stops in the form of a ring of teeth integral with the housing. The locking member has a curved recess with at least one further stop, into which recess engages an attachment provided on the end of the spindle. This attachment acts as a stop for the locking member during any relative movement between the spindle and the locking member. The eccentric point for the eccentric mounting of the locking member is arranged at least on the circumferential line of the spindle, preferably outside this line.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1982Date of Patent: July 24, 1984Assignee: Autoflug GmbHInventor: Klaus Butenop
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Patent number: 4431233Abstract: A safety seat for motor vehicles, with a safety belt, particularly a three-point belt, stored in an automatic belt roll-up device, and including a lock tongue, a belt lock arranged at the door side of the vehicle, and a flexible, restorable belt-strap guide, which is connected to the seat and/or the belt roll-up device, and is hollow to form a passage for the belt strap which is movable in the guide in the longitudinal direction. The belt-strap guide is limited in length in the manner of a stump. With the safety belt open, the free end of the guide extends essentially straight and forms an abutment or a receiving opening for the lock tongue in the region of the outlet opening for the belt-strap. With the safety belt closed, the belt-strap guide bends elastically under the effect of belt-strap forces in the direction of the path of the particular belt segment.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1981Date of Patent: February 14, 1984Assignee: Autoflug GmbHInventor: Hans-Hellmut Ernst
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Patent number: 4403376Abstract: A central belt lock for strapping in individuals, particularly in aircraft. The belt lock serves for simultaneous releasable connection of several belts which have respective connection tongues with hook-shaped connection devices. The lock includes a lock housing having a hook-shaped bead, and a disc arranged across from the bead, and shiftable against spring action upon a hub secured to the housing, with the disc being tiltable during at least one position of a latching device, which position permits the insertion of the connection tongues. The hub has a tapering at that end thereof fastened to the housing, with the tapering extending essentially over the shifting path of the movable disc, and in that the movable disc has an opening which encircles the hub and has a diameter corresponding essentially to the diameter of the cylindrical part of the hub.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 1981Date of Patent: September 13, 1983Assignee: Autoflug GmbHInventor: Armin Palloks
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Patent number: 4358878Abstract: A plug-fastener for safety belts in motor vehicles, which comprises a tongue-like plug part and a receiving part for receiving and retaining the tongue-like plug part. The plug part is provided with at least one recess, undercut, or a shoulder. The receiving part comprises at least one locking member which engages the recess, undercut or shoulder of the plug part, and, after the plug part has been received by the receiving part, is operable to retain these parts until the parts are separated deliberately. In the receiving part in the path of movement of the plug part there is movably arranged a holding member one end or extension of which is adapted to engage the locking member in its unlocked position and to prevent the latter from moving into its locking position until the plug part has contacted the holding member and has moved it out of engagement with the locking member.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1980Date of Patent: November 16, 1982Assignee: Autoflug GmbHInventor: Holger Seel
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Patent number: 4273210Abstract: A roller unit for winding up a safety belt for motor vehicles with a built-in device for blocking the pulling-out of the safety belt in response to certain movements or positions of the pertaining vehicle. The device includes a sensor with a magnetically attractable inertia body, e.g. a ball or a pendulum, which is operatively connected to a pawl. The pawl, when occupying a first position engages teeth operable to control a blocking disc, thereby initiating a blocking operation. Adjacent the inertia body there is provided an electromagnet for exerting a deflecting action upon the inertia body.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1979Date of Patent: June 16, 1981Assignee: Autoflug GmbHInventor: Karl-Heinz Nitzbon
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Patent number: 4253621Abstract: A vehicle-inertia-sensitive blocking device for automatic belt reeling mechanisms for motor vehicle safety belts. The device has an inertia sensor and a thereby pivoted pawl, which is pivotally mounted on a carrier and has a stop for engaging a counterpart or cogwheel having corresponding toothing. The pawl or the carrier has indentation or notch means that form a rated breaking point, and optionally, the pawl has a further stop in the region of the rated breaking point on the remaining portion of the pawl. Mechanism is provided for holding one of the stops remaining on the pawl in blocking engagement with the cogwheel.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 1979Date of Patent: March 3, 1981Assignee: Autoflug GmbHInventor: Holger Seel
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Patent number: 4223853Abstract: A device for rolling on and off safety belts, especially a motor vehicles, which includes a housing and a shaft rotatably journalled in said housing and spring urged in the winding up direction of the safety belt. The safety belt by pulling thereof is adapted to be wound off the shaft against the thrust of the spring. The device is furthermore provided with an arrangement adapted in response to forces of a predetermined magnitude automatically to act upon the safety belt or the device. For absorbing the forces occurring during normal operation on one hand and during a blocking action on the other hand, the shaft is respectively differently journalled for absorbing the forces in axial direction and in radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 1978Date of Patent: September 23, 1980Assignee: Autoflug GmbHInventor: Hans-Hellmut Ernst