Belt winder

US6250579A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• TAKATA (EUROPE) Vehicle Safety Technology GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Georg Bannert · Hirschhorn, DE
• Christian Husung · Bobingen, DE
• Martin Wifling · Blaustein, DE
• Robert Fleischmann · Neu-Ulm, DE
• Hermann Hasse · Lonsee, DE
• Andreas Wengert · Mutlangen, DE
• Leonhard Mayer · Heilbronn, DE
• Oswald Lustig · Asselfingen, DE
• Robert Kopetzky · Lonsee, DE
• Roland Schnabl · Ulm, DE
• Richard Frank · Oberelchingen, DE
• Thomas Kempfle · Bibertal, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 27, 1998
• Grant date: Jun 26, 2001
• Expiry date: Oct 27, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2022/288
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A belt winder for safety belts has a spindle (14) for the winding up of the safety belt (18) and a rotatable latching flange (12) which can be latched with respect to a fixed base frame (10). A torsion bar (16) is rotationally fixedly connected at its one end to the spindle (14) and is rotationally fixedly connected at its other end to the latching flange (12). A further torsion bar (26) is provided, which can be selectively switched in.