Safety restraint system for protecting a vehicle occupant

A safety restraint system (10) for protecting a seated vehicle occupant has a load limiting retractor (102) for generating one or more levels of reaction force for permitting an associated seat belt (104) to be controllably protracted. The safety restraint system also has an airbag (208). A controll...

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Hauptverfasser: FRECH, HENRY D, HILL, TIMOTHY W, MILLER, H. JOHN III, EUSEBI, CHRISTOPHER
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:A safety restraint system (10) for protecting a seated vehicle occupant has a load limiting retractor (102) for generating one or more levels of reaction force for permitting an associated seat belt (104) to be controllably protracted. The safety restraint system also has an airbag (208). A controller (130) controls the level of load limiting in correspondence with the degree of inflation, crash intensity, vehicle occupant size and the relative distance to the vehicle occupant.