Patents Assigned to Takata AG
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Publication number: 20160311397Abstract: The invention relates to a belt retractor for a safety belt, having: a belt reel (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600) for winding up the safety belt; a locking base (120, 220, 320, 420, 520, 620) which during normal operation is conjointly rotated with the belt reel and the rotary motion of which upon abrupt belt extraction is locked by means of a locking mechanism; and a belt force limiting installation which upon locking of the locking base permits relative rotation between the belt reel and the locking base. It is provided according to the invention that the belt retractor has a deactivation installation which after a predefined maximum relative rotary angle between the locking base and the belt reel blocks the relative rotation which is permitted between the belt reel and the locking base by the belt force limiting installation and, on account thereof, deactivates the belt force limiting installation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: October 27, 2016Applicant: TAKATA AGInventors: Hermann HASSE, Robert FLEISCHMANN, Joachim NUESSELER, Peter BAUMGARTNER, Thomas SCHWER, Armin TOTH, Dirk BUCHLAUB, Jochen LANG, Thomas RUPP
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Patent number: 9463772Abstract: A tensioning drive for a safely belt device. The tensioning drive includes a gas generator, a drive wheel and a supply pipe which connects the gas generator and the drive wheel. A plurality of pushing members is included in the supply pipe. The pushing members are accelerated after the gas generator has been activated. The pushing members drive the drive wheel, and at least one of the pushing members completely or at least partially seals the supply pipe. The sealing action of the at least one sealing pushing member is ended or reduced after a predetermined distance has been travelled.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: TAKATA AGInventors: Wolfgang Schrade, Hans-Juergen Divo, Armin Toth, Robert Fleischmann, Gerhard Klingauf, Heinrich Einsiedel, Ruediger Paulsen
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Patent number: 9446733Abstract: This invention relates to a gas bag arrangement of a vehicle occupant restraint system, the gas bag arrangement comprising: a gas bag (1) which includes at least one inflatable chamber (11) with a first and a second portion (111, 112); and at least one connecting element (51, 51?, 52) which connects the first and the second portion (111, 112) with each other such that the first and the second portion (111, 112) extend at an angle to each other, wherein the first and the second portion (111, 112)—based on the mounted and inflated condition of the gas bag (1)—extend at least approximately parallel to a plane defined by the vehicle height and vehicle length direction (z, x) and the connecting element (51, 51?, 52) extends on a side of the gas bag (1) facing away from the vehicle occupant (2) to be protected and points towards the vehicle front, wherein the gas bag arrangement is arranged and formed for the protection of the upper body and/or the head of a passenger or a vehicle occupant (2) located on a rearType: GrantFiled: July 29, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: TAKATA AGInventors: Tobias Pausch, Ingo Müller, Torsten Steiner, Kay Schöfisch, Dirk Meissner
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Patent number: 9440611Abstract: A gas hag arrangement for a vehicle occupant restraint system comprises an inflatable gas hag, wherein the gas bag includes at least one vent device for venting gas from the gas bag, wherein the vent device in a first condition has a first outflow cross-section and in a second condition a second outflow cross-section; as well as a release mechanism which initially fixes the vent device and which releases the same after activation. The release mechanism includes an element to be filled with gas, with which the vent device is connected such that before filling of the tillable element it is fixed at the same and during filling of the fillable element is detached from the same, wherein the vent device is directly or indirectly connected with the tillable element via a releasable connection which will tear during filling of the fillable element and release the vent device.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: TAKATA AGInventor: Philipp Sennert
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Patent number: 9428142Abstract: The invention relates inter alia to a gas generator (10) for generating a driving gas for a vehicle safety device, wherein the gas generator has an ignition device (30) and propellant (50) which generates gas after being ignited by the ignition device (30). It is provided according to the invention that the gas generator (10) has a tube (20), to one tube end (21) of which the ignition device (30) is fixed by means of a moulded-in or moulded-on injection-moulded body (40).Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2012Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Takata AGInventors: Hans-Jurgen Divo, Christine-Martina Ganso, Gerhard Klingauf, Roland Schnabl, Jochen Benz
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Publication number: 20160242511Abstract: A belt buckle for a plug-in tongue of a vehicle seat belt. The buckle includes a holding mechanism for holding an inserted plug-in tongue and with a belt buckle housing which includes a first shell part and a second shell part locked onto the first shell part. The buckle includes a rod-shaped latch element that is mounted on the first shell part. The latch element is pushed along its longitudinal direction into a latch receiver of the second shell part and is held there by means of at least one pair of latching fins. The latching fins on opposite sides of the latch element each bear at an angle on a latch edge, formed on the surface of the latch element, and prevent a withdrawal of the latch element from the latch receiver counter to the insertion direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2014Publication date: August 25, 2016Applicant: TAKATA AGInventors: Rainer MANGOLD, Gerhard FREY, Thomas GRASSER
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Patent number: 9409547Abstract: The invention relates inter alia to a sensor (10), in particular for triggering a vehicle security device (1). According to the invention the sensor (10) comprises a support element (40) and a housing part (70), which holds the support element (40), and the housing part (70) consists of a softer material than the support element (40).Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2012Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: TAKATA AGInventors: Peter Baumgartner, Hermann Hasse, Oswald Lustig, Thomas Bertram
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Patent number: 9409831Abstract: The invention relates to a gas generator assembly for an airbag module of a motor vehicle, which is equipped for inflating a gas bag of the airbag module. The gas generator assembly comprises a generator housing, with a gas set arranged in the generator housing, from which a gas can be generated on ignition, an ignition device for igniting the gas bag, a volume compensating element which acts on the gas set under elastic pretension and which is designed as spring element, and a filter for filtering gases generated by means of the gas set, which are released from the generator housing. The volume compensating element is formed of a filter material and is arranged in the generator housing such that gases generated in the generator housing are filtered by the volume compensating element, before they exit from the generator housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Takata AGInventor: Dieter Marstatt
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Patent number: 9403503Abstract: A gas bag arrangement for a vehicle occupant restraint system is provided. The gas bag arrangement comprises a gas bag inflatable by a gas generator to protect a vehicle occupant, whose envelope defines an interior space of the gas bag that can be filled with gas, a vent opening through which gas can flow out of the gas bag, and a device for controlling the outlet cross-section of the vent opening, which comprises at least one covering part with which the vent opening can be covered, in order to at least partly close the same, and which furthermore comprises an actuating mechanism which interacts with the covering part, in order to vary the outlet cross-section of the vent opening. The actuating mechanism includes an additional gas source and an element different from the gas bag and inflatable by means of the gas source.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: TAKATA AGInventors: Andre Buchholz, Mario Wendt, Johannes Pfeiffer
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Publication number: 20160200289Abstract: A belt retractor for a safety belt, having a belt reel for winding or unwinding the safety belt, and a belt force limiting installation which comprises a first and second torsion bar for limiting belt force. The belt retractor has a free-wheeling transmission Which operates depending on the rotation angle and which after activation of the belt force limiting installation initially leaves the second torsion bar so as to be inactive, while the first torsion bar for limiting belt force is already being twisted, and the free-wheeling transmission activates the second torsion bar as soon as the free-wheeling transmission has been rotated about a predefined maximum free-wheeling rotation angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2014Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: TAKATA AGInventors: Robert FLEISCHMANN, Armin TOTH, Christoph PECHHOLD, Thomas SCHWER, Karl-Friedrich HAUG
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Patent number: 9333942Abstract: A belt roller for a safety belt having a belt coil for winding and unwinding the safety belt. The roller includes a lockable locking base which is connected to the belt coil and which is suitable for blocking the belt coil in the event of an abrupt rotation of the belt coil in the belt unwinding direction. The roller also includes a force transmission element which couples the belt coil and the locking base in a locking position and is inactive in an unlocking position. The force transmission element has a base member and a shearing portion which can be sheared off.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: TAKATA AGInventors: Wolfgang Schrade, Armin Toth
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Publication number: 20160001807Abstract: A motor vehicle steering wheel with at least one gripping portion for gripping the steering wheel by a driver and with a central steering wheel region which is connected with the gripping portion is provided. The central steering wheel region—based on the state of the steering wheel properly mounted in a motor vehicle—forms a cover surface facing the driver, wherein behind the cover surface a receptacle for a gas bag is arranged and the cover surface defines an outlet opening through which the gas bag can be deployed for the protection of the driver. The steering wheel furthermore comprises an electronic display device with a screen. The screen is provided beside the outlet opening on the cover surface of the central steering wheel region, and the surface of the screen amounts to at least 60% of the opening cross-section of the outlet opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicants: TAKATA AG, AUDIO MOBIL ELEKTRONIK GMBHInventors: Andreas HANS, Norbert MÜLLER, Heiko RUCK, Thomas STOTTAN, Martin GRADINGER
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Publication number: 20150375710Abstract: An airbag for a vehicle occupant restraining system of a motor vehicle is provided. The airbag comprises a pre-folded portion, which comprises at least two subsections of the airbag, of which the one subsection is folded about a folding line via bend folding to an inner side of the other subsection facing the vehicle interior space in the mounted and inflated status of the airbag. The folded subsection is formed such that it extends in the mounted and inflated status of the airbag beyond a door balustrade of a vehicle longitudinal side. The airbag further comprises a roll folded portion, which comprises the pre-folded portion, wherein the roll folded portion is formed by rolling up the airbag to an outer side of the airbag facing in the mounted and inflated status of the airbag a vehicle longitudinal side.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicant: TAKATA AGInventors: Thomas SIEVERS, Christian BROSCH
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Publication number: 20150367809Abstract: A gas hag arrangement for a vehicle occupant restraint system comprises an inflatable gas hag, wherein the gas bag includes at least one vent device for venting gas from the gas bag, wherein the vent device in a first condition has a first outflow cross-section and in a second condition a second outflow cross-section; as well as a release mechanism which initially fixes the vent device and which releases the same after activation. The release mechanism includes an element to be filled with gas, with which the vent device is connected such that before filling of the tillable element it is fixed at the same and during filling of the fillable element is detached from the same, wherein the vent device is directly or indirectly connected with the tillable element via a releasable connection which will tear during filling of the fillable element and release the vent device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2013Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: TAKATA AGInventor: Philipp SENNERT
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Patent number: 9216715Abstract: The invention relates to a belt retractor (10) for a seatbelt, comprising a belt reel (20) for winding up and unwinding the seatbelt, and a lockable locking base (30) which is connected to the belt reel (20) and, before locking, is rotated together with the belt reel (20) and, after locking, the rotational movement of said locking base is blocked, wherein, in the event of locking of the locking base (30) for limiting the belt force, the locking base (30) and the belt reel (20) can rotate relative to each other. According to the invention, the belt retractor has a band (70) which, in the event of a relative rotation between belt reel and locking base, is pulled into a gap (110), said gap (110) being defined by at least one deformable element (150, 200) which is deformed by the band (70) pulled into the gap (110).Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: TAKATA AGInventors: Oliver Gloeckler, Tobias Miller, Christoph Pechhold
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Publication number: 20150353045Abstract: A side airbag for motor vehicles is provided. The side airbag comprises a gas bag which is to be arranged as intended on a vehicle seat, so that, in order to protect a vehicle occupant situated on the vehicle seat, it can be deployed laterally beside the vehicle occupant, and a gas generator for filling the gas bag with a gas, so that the same deploys. The gas bag and the gas generator are configured and provided to be arranged on the vehicle seat such that in the deployed state the gas bag supports itself on a backrest frame of the vehicle seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2013Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicant: TAKATA AGInventors: Hans-Peter SENDELBACH, Uwe DIERKS
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Publication number: 20150343982Abstract: An airbag module for a motor vehicle is provided. The airbag module comprises a gas bag which for the protection of a person can be inflated by means of a gas generator, a module housing for accommodating the gas bag, which includes a tab which protrudes from a main chamber of the module housing accommodating the gas bag, a gas bag holder for fixing the gas bag at the module housing, an inflatable element for regulating the gas pressure in the gas bag, a triggering unit for filling the inflatable element with gas, which is arranged within the module housing in the tab of the module housing, and a fixing element by means of which the triggering unit is fixed at the module housing. The fixing element with a base body, with which it at least partly encloses the triggering unit, engages into the tab of the module housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2014Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: TAKATA AGInventors: Tobias FECHNER, Andre BUCHHOLZ, Peter WEIS
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Publication number: 20150329073Abstract: A gas bag arrangement for a vehicle occupant restraint system is provided. The gas bag arrangement comprises a gas bag inflatable by a gas generator to protect a vehicle occupant, whose envelope defines an interior space of the gas bag that can be filled with gas, a vent opening through which gas can flow out of the gas bag, and a device for controlling the outlet cross-section of the vent opening, which comprises at least one covering part with which the vent opening can be covered, in order to at least partly close the same, and which furthermore comprises an actuating mechanism which interacts with the covering part, in order to vary the outlet cross-section of the vent opening. The actuating mechanism includes an additional gas source and an element different from the gas bag and inflatable by means of the gas source.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2013Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: TAKATA AGInventors: Andre BUCHHOLZ, Mario WENDT, Johannes PFEIFFER
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Patent number: 9168952Abstract: A steering angle sensor for motor vehicles for determining the steering angle of a steering element of a steering wheel assembly, which is rotatable during a steering movement is provided. The steering angle sensor comprises a rotatably mounted drive element which during a rotary movement of the steering element likewise performs a rotary movement, and a rotatably mounted driven element which is in engagement with the drive element and is driven by the same. The steering angle is determined by detecting the rotary movement and/or the angle of rotation of the driven element. The drive element and/or the driven element include elastic means via which the drive element and the driven element are braced against each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: TAKATA AGInventors: Axel Schnieders, Markus Stollberg, Holger Franz
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Publication number: 20150298650Abstract: The invention relates to a belt retractor (10) for a seat belt, with a belt reel (20) for winding up and unwinding the seat belt, and a torsion bar (30) which is arranged outside the belt reel (20) and is connected at one bar end (32) to a switchable fixing device (50), the switchable fixing device (50), in one state, keeping the bar end (32) rotationally fixed and, in another state, permitting rotation of the bar end (32). According to the invention, it is provided that the switchable fixing device (50) has a displaceable piston (80) which, with a piston portion, in a locking position, can secure the bar end (32) against rotation and, in a release position displaced in relation to the locking position, releases the bar end (32).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2015Publication date: October 22, 2015Applicant: Takata AGInventors: Oliver GLOECKLER, Wolfgang Schrade, Peter Linde, Uwe Eisemann, Armin Toth