Fixing device for a seat belt winder

US7484763B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Autoliv Development AB · SE

Inventors

• Jens Ehlers · Horst, DE
• Volkmar Heine · Hamburg, DE
• Ronald Jabusch · Elmshorn, DE
• Doris Kröger · Tornesch, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 24, 2003
• Grant date: Feb 3, 2009
• Expiry date: Mar 20, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2022/3402
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The inventive device for fixing a seat belt winder is fixed to the part of a motor vehicle. The plate of the housing of the winder is provided with at lest one fixing hole for receiving a screw connection which maintains the vehicle part embodied therein. The housing of said seat belt winder is arranged in such a way that it is rotatable with respect to the fixing hole of the vehicle part, thereby enabling the winder to be automatically oriented in a direction of a force of a belt which moves at an angle with respect to the axis of the shaft. Said fixing device is characterised in that the housing (10) of the winder is rotationally maintained on the holder part (13, 19, 25) which can be firmly connected to the vehicle part (40). Said housing (10) is supported by the holder part (13, 19, 25) at a distance to the fixing hole (41) of the vehicle part (40) and is fixed to said holder part (13, 19, 25) in such away that the housing (10) of the seat belt winder is rotatable with respect the holder part (13, 19, 25) in an opposite direction to the action of a pre-set resistance.