Abstract: A safety restraint system having a seat belt retractor actuated by an electric motor, a logic control responsive to the state of a buckle switch and the outputs of a motor current sensor, a motor terminal voltage sensor and a crash sensor for generating mode signals corresponding to the operational state of the system, and a motor power control responsive to the mode signals for adjusting the seat belt for optimum safety of the occupant. When the seat belt is buckled the logic control will sequentially generate signals activating the power control to energize the retractor's motor to snug up the seat belt against the occupant's shoulder, then reverse its direction to provide a predetermined slack. The crash sensor will cause the motor to be energized to remove most of the slack before the crash loads are imposed upon the seat belt and the retractor. Unbuckling the seat belt energized the motor to stow the seat belt.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for obtaining an electrical signal which is a function of the 0.sub.2 content of the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine. Two resistors (1 and 3) are exposed to the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine. Both resistors (1 and 3) have a resistance which varies as a function of the temperature of the exhaust gas to which it is exposed. However, the resistance of one of the resistors (1) also varies as a function of the oxygen content in the exhaust gas. Therefore, by applying a voltage to the resistors an electrical signal can be obtained which is a function of the O.sub.2 content of the exhaust gas, with the temperature effect of the exhaust gas on the network output being minimized or eliminated. The resistors (1 and 3) that form the sensing elements (10) are connected in series to other resistors to form a first and second resistor network which is connected together in parallel circuit relationship.

Abstract: The invention is a single crystal force transducer in which the crystal is simultaneously resonated in two different modes having substantially the same frequency-temperature characteristics and different frequency-force characteristics. The difference in the change between the two resonant frequencies with a force applied to the crystal is therefore a temperature compensated signal indicative of the applied force. In the preferred embodiment the two resonant modes are anharmonic modes having a plurality of antinodes angularly disposed to each other.

Abstract: Fuel control apparatus for dual chamber stratified charge engine systems utilizes a single point fuel control arrangement for the main (lean) air-fuel mixture in combination with a multi-point fuel injection arrangement for the igniting (rich) mixture. The single point and multi-point arrangements may be essentially independent in that they both sense and compute quantity of air flow, respectively, and meter and inject fuel respectively. In an alternate form of the invention, the air flow sensing function of the single point arrangement is used to provide suitable air flow information to the multi-point arrangement and in another alternate form of the invention the fuel flow injection function of the multi-point arrangement is used to provide suitable fuel flow information to the single point arrangement.