Patent References 3578260 3834646 Energy storing safety belt retractor Locking safety belt reels Automatic locking safety belt retractor Emergency locking mechanism for seat belts Safety belt take-up device Patent #: 4190213 InventorAssigneeApplicationNo. 06/444090 filed on 11/24/1982US Classes:242/384.2, With pivot pawl242/384.6Ball operatorExaminersPrimary: Jillions, John M.Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassesB60R 22/34 (20060101)B60R 22/40 (20060101) Foreign Application Priority Data1981-11-30 DEAbstractMechanism for blocking a belt shaft of a roll-up device for a safety belt in a vehicle characterized by the features that the control pawl is pivoted in the stationary roll-up housing of the mechanism in the tangential direction range to the pitch circle of the teeth, can be swung with the detent tip of the control pawl by positioning means of the danger sensor into the range of the teeth of the control disc, can be swung further upon rotation of the control disc toward the tooth base by a pulling force on the safety belt against the detent tip with the latter, taking along the blocking pawl into the area of the ratchet wheel teeth and can be moved, at least in the range of its tip, against an elastic force by a pulling force on the safety belt transmitted via the cam of the control disc where if a tooth of the control disc is struck by the tip of the control pawl, a distance between the next tooth of the ratchet wheel is provided by mechanical design to ensure engagement of the blocking pawl with the teeth of the ratchet wheel. | |