Abstract: A multi-purpose buckle sensor assembly includes a hall sensor portion including a hail sensor and a printed enclosed in one package; a base plate including a metal pattern with a plurality of terminal portions for control and power lines formed in a predetermined pattern and a supporting plate including a plurality of terminal seats for connecting the connecting ends of control and power lines to the terminal portions; a movable member including at least two contact terminals for generating various control and a terminal block made of a heat-melted material in the form of a fork having three branches at the front portion and including at least one branch enclosing the connecting ends of the control and power lines electrically coupled to each other with the control terminal portions in corresponding power terminal seats, in which the hall sensor portion is cooperated with a buckle assembly.

Abstract: A seatbelt buckle apparatus includes a buckle assembly for latching or unlatching a tongue connected to a seatbelt, a hall sensor assembly including contact and non-contact switched integrated into one unit, which is coupled with the buckle assembly, and for operating together with the buckle assembly to detect the locking or unlocking state thereof to generate at least two control signals; an upper case and a lower case coupled to each other for receiving the buckle assembly and the hall sensor assembly, in which the lower case includes a device for determining the position of the hall sensor assembly and fixing it thereon; the frame includes a device for determining the position of the hall sensor assembly and fixing it thereto; and an ejector including a second permanent magnet to cooperate with the hall sensor responsive to the movement thereof and a pair of leg portions projected from a lower surface thereof to cooperate with the movable member.

Abstract: A vehicular seatbelt retractor includes a load control for controlling an excessive force applied to a web and a web sensor for sensing the webbing acceleration of a seatbelt to take counteraction against the abnormal state of a vehicle at a quick speed, in which the load control enables a disk to be frictionally engaged with one surface of a spool winding portion, thereby dissipating the force applied to a web, and a torsion bar coupled at one end with a boss to be cooperated with a spool, thereby controlling the force applied to the web and the web sensor enables a latch member elastically supported at one end by an inertia spring to sense the web acceleration in an adjusted time range along with a wing thereby to take counteraction against the abnormal state of a vehicle.

Abstract: A rotation device of a buckle for use in an automobile seat belt is provided with a base having a plate-like shape to be mounted on a bottom surface of a main body and provided with a circular plate portion at its one end, the circular plate portion provided with a through hole formed therethrough, and a pair of side walls bent upwardly each of which has a lug bent inwardly to be integrally formed with the circular plate portion as well as the pair of side walls, a stalk whose one end is rotatably mounted on an upper surface of the circular plate portion of the base has a hole formed therethrough and a stopper portion formed around the end of the stalk and provided with a protrusion for being contacted with an inner surface of the side wall of the base and an abutment for limiting a rotation angle of the main body, the stalk having a protrusion for stopping a rotational movement, an elastic member whose one end is contacted to the protrusion for stopping a rotational movement and having an elasticity and a th

Abstract: There is provided a side airbag for an automobile having airbag modules 100, 200, 300, which selectively includes reinforcing pads, an inner cushion pad, a tube-type tether and a tear seam, all of which are piled in multi-layers, so that the side airbag may be developed with regulating the gas pressure duration without eccentricity, in a useful and effective manner to successfully protect a driver and passengers seated in the vehicle. The cushion pads used in the side airbag require a small amount of materials, are easily seamed and easily folded, so as to reduce costs.

Abstract: A locking state detecting apparatus of a buckle includes a hall sensor, a switching element, and resistors. Operation of the hall sensor is based on the locking state of the buckle. The operating state of the hall sensor affects the operating state of the switching element, which in turn affects voltage values that fall across the resistors. An electronic control unit senses the voltage values across the resistors to determine the operating state of the hall sensor and detects the locking state of the buckle.

Abstract: Disclosed is a seat belt buckle. The seat belt buckle comprises a body frame; a release button slidably coupled to the body frame for unlatching a seat belt tongue from the seat belt buckle; a locking lever capable of being pivotally rotated about wings by a predetermined angle; a slider for supporting and fixing the locking lever; and an ejector for pushing the tongue in a longitudinal direction which is a lengthwise direction of the body frame. The body frame has an arch-shaped supporting beam which is integrally formed with the body frame in a manner such that the supporting beam is erected in a vertical direction. The supporting beam serves to limit movement of the slider and increase structural rigidity of the seat belt buckle. The slider has a width which is greater than that of the body frame and possesses shock-absorbing means for increasing durability of the seat belt buckle. The slider is formed with inclined projections.

Abstract: A control system for a seatbelt retractor for a seatbelt retractor is to perform the operating performance test of the retractor mounted on a holder structure with at least one sensor and a locking device cooperating therewith throughout a wider range of tilt angle using a PLC, in which the control system includes a motor control portion connected to the PLC to control the rotation of motors at a tilt angle to be inputted in advance; a rotary cylinder control portion for controlling the rotating of a rotary cylinder in order to rotate a spool of the retractor; a stamping control portion for controlling the operating timing of a stamping portion; a memory for enabling various control operations of the PLC; a data register for storing digital data code values corresponding to a plurality of tilt angles; and a multi-axle motion controller for computing the digital data values, therefore enabling the tilt angle of the retractor to be tested with the holder structure being slanted.

Abstract: a control system of a factory automation facility for a seatbelt retractor assembly comprising a factory automation facility and a control portion for controlling the operating of all parts in the factory automation facility, integrally, to enable the mass-production of a seatbelt retractor assembly, in which the factory automation facility comprises a webbing throwing-in portion for throwing-in a webbing of a strip type thereinto by a first webbing supplying portion; first and second webbing position determining devices for guiding the webbing to pass through the hole of a retractor spool, a webbing withdrawing portion including a second webbing supplying portion and a case to withdraw the webbing and store it for a while, first and second part supplying portions for assembling a tongue, a guide ring and a ring mount on the withdrawn webbing, a stopper fixing portion including a third webbing supplying portion for carrying the webbing to a webbing folding portion, upper and lower stopper suppliers for supply

Abstract: A pretensioner comprises a pyrotechnic force generating device including a horizontal tube with a propellent charged cartridge, a housing receiving one end of the cylinder with the horizontal tube being supported to cooperate with the force generating device in order to reverse-rotate the reel; a force transmitting portion including an arm positioned in a first chamber of the housing, one end of which is directed to the piston in the cylinder and the other end of which is extended out of the cylinder, a pulley rotatably mounted on the other branched end of the arm and a cable fixed at one end to the housing, passed through the pulley, wound around the clutch disk and fixed at the other end to the clutch disk; and a pretensioner positioned in a second chamber, which comprises the clutch disk and a clutch portion, in which the clutch disk includes a circular groove formed around the periphery thereof to allow a length of the cable to be wound thereon, a plurality of second coupling projections each having a rig

Abstract: A vehicular seatbelt retractor is provided with a webbing control device and a pawl device, in which a mass member is inserted into a first tooth portion body of a clutch wheel and is positioned in a retainer ring of a retainer, so that its wing latch faces a second sprocket of the retainer ring. The webbing control device includes a retainer, a locking element and a clutch wheel, and the pawl device includes a housing and a standing weight mounted to be rocked from side to side in the housing.

Abstract: A retainer ring having an air deflector, for use with an airbag mounting structure, includes a flange in which an inflater opening for receiving an inflater is formed; and a wall, a base of which is connected to the flange, extending upward and outward from the inflater opening at a predetermined angle to diffuse and deflect exploding gas upward. The wall, which realizes a simplified configuration for the retainer ring, may include convex portions projecting inwardly towards the inflater opening, being regularly spaced, and rib formations integrally formed on an inner side of the wall between the convex portions. The rib formations are evenly spaced, as a pair of rows covering the height of the inner side of the wall, and slope downward on either side of the convex portions. The airbag mounting structure clamps the inflater and the airbag between the retainer ring and a baseplate, which is mounted to a support within an automobile.

Abstract: A safety belt retractor comprises a belt winding shaft including a cylindrical projecting portion projected from its one end surface, a torsion bar coupled at one end to the end surface of the belt winding shaft and at the other end to a skid mechanism integrated with a sprocket, which is accommodated in the belt winding shaft and the skid mechanism for limiting the torque of the torsion bar, in which the cylindrical projecting portion includes a stopper for determining the rotation of the torsion bar, the skid mechanism includes a skip member, which is provided with a latching portion contacting with the stopper and a skid element for limiting the torque of the torsion bar, and a skid structure provided with a boss coupled to enable the other end of the torsion bar to be inserted thereinto and a guide groove formed around the periphery of the boss on the bottom surface thereof, in which at least two pairs of blocking elements are provided, thereby to limit the rotation of the belt winding shaft.

Abstract: A tension reducer for relieving the drawing force of a retractor for an automobile safety seat belt comprises a clutch apparatus cooperated with a retractor for inducing the smooth operation of a webbing upon the pulling out and retracting of a web, the clutch apparatus including first and second coil springs mounted therein which have different elastic force assisting in the webbing to be changed directly into a rotation force thereof, thereby reducing the friction and noise of the coil springs and removing the eccentric rotation thereof.

Abstract: A webbing lock apparatus and assembly therefor is disclosed, wherein a relative rotation between a hook retainer and a wheel mass connected to a fly wheel causes a hook to move to contact a lock ring so that an inner portion of the ring comes into mesh with a portion of the hook thereby actuating a locking mechanism preventing a webbing of a belt to be unwound from an intermediate portion of a spool, upon the occurrence of an emergency condition. A web sensor spring is adjustable to set an elastic force that determines the duration of the locking operation. The apparatus simplifies the required assembly process and is easy to fabricate, thereby enhancing a product reliability, and cost competitiveness.

Abstract: A seat belt apparatus for an automobile includes a ratchet wheel and at least one pawl member for selectively braking a spool with respect to one direction of its rotation. The pawl member operates to perform the emergency locking and excessive-loosening preventing functions with respective to a belt. To precisely control the time for emergency stop of belt, the apparatus contains a fly wheel mass having a plurality of holes, and a web sensing spring one end of which is fixed to one of the holes. Further, to control the effective length of the belt, the apparatus includes cam protrusions, a cam gear and a cam plate which overlap to enable the distance control of the cam protrusions.