Patents Assigned to General Engineering (The Netherlands) B.V.
  • Patent number: 4915414
    Abstract: A seat belt anchorage is provided for a seat belt for use to protect a person sitting in a front seat of a two-door vehicle. The anchorage comprises a slider bar mounted in the interior of the vehicle adjacent the door sill and extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. One end of the seat belt is slidably attached to the bar. The bar is adapted to be moved towards the sill when the slider bar is subjected to a force from above so that the distance between the slider bar and the sill is reduced. This minimizes any risk of a person catching a shoe heel between the slider bar and the sill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1990
    Assignee: General Engineering (Netherlands) B.V.
    Inventor: Per-Olof Weman
  • Patent number: 4910836
    Abstract: A seat belt buckle has a latching member (7), which engages the tongue of the buckle. The latching member is pivotally mounted on a channel member, engaging lugs (18) formed in apertures in the side walls of the channel in a substantially friction-free manner. The lugs are deformable so that, in an accident situation, the lugs deform and the periphery (17) of the latching member (7) engages the periphery of each aperture in each side wall of the channel. Thus the latching member has a substantially friction-free movement, buth the latching member is able to withstand severe forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: General Engineering (Netherlands) B.V.
    Inventor: Artur L. Haglund
  • Patent number: 4832280
    Abstract: A safety belt reel assembly comprises a supporting frame, a safety belt, one end of the safety belt being attached to a spindle which may be rotatably mounted on said frame, an arrangement for automatically winding said belt onto said spindle, and a movable belt guide. The belt guide servies to ensure that the safety belt arrives at the take up point of the belt roll on the spindle in a desired orientation. This is achieved by providing a two component guide, a first component being mounted on the frame of the reel assembly and the second component being rotatably mounted on the first component and defining an elongate slot through which the safety belt may pass. With the second component rotatably mounted on the first component, the longitudinal axis of the slot through which the belt passes may rotate from a position where it lies parallel to the longitudinal axis of the reel spindle to a position where it is no longer parallel to the longitudinal spindle axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: General Engineering (Netherlands) B.V.
    Inventors: Lars Y. Haland, Mats A. Karlin