Vehicular seatbelt retractor
View Patent ↗A vehicular seatbelt retractor includes a load control for controlling an excessive force applied to a web and a web sensor for sensing the webbing acceleration of a seatbelt to take counteraction against the abnormal state of a vehicle at a quick speed, in which the load control enables a disk to be frictionally engaged with one surface of a spool winding portion, thereby dissipating the force applied to a web, and a torsion bar coupled at one end with a boss to be cooperated with a spool, thereby controlling the force applied to the web and the web sensor enables a latch member elastically supported at one end by an inertia spring to sense the web acceleration in an adjusted time range along with a wing thereby to take counteraction against the abnormal state of a vehicle.
1. A vehicular seatbelt retractor for winding and releasing a length of webbing from a spool, said vehicular seatbelt retractor comprising:
a frame including openings formed at a center of each of a pair of left and right leg portions, on an upper portion of each leg portion a frictional tooth portion is formed in a predetermined arc;
a spool including a winding portion sealed at one end and opened at the other end and a sprocket portion for winding a web thereon, in which the winding portion forming a cavity therein, the spool including a flange formed on a circumferential portion from one side of said spool to be positioned on an opening thickness of said left leg portion with a shaft projected from a center of said sealed end to be coupled with one end of a spring and another flange having stoppers formed in a diametrical line on a circumference thereof facing each other, on an upper surface of each stopper a fixing pin is mounted;
a load control including a torsion bar inserted into said cavity, on both ends of which a coupling portion is formed, a disk having guiders bent downward to be respectively positioned adjacent said stoppers contacting said flange on said opened end of said winding portion and a projector formed on an upper surface of the disk and a sprocket portion having a boss projected therefrom and coupled with one end of said torsion bar, a groove formed on a circumference of the sprocket portion adjacent said boss to guide the movement of said projector, a sprocket stretched from a flange to be engaged with a tooth portion of said right leg portion and having another shaft projected from a center of the sprocket;
a locking portion mounted adjacent said sprocket portion to stop rotation of said spool;
a web sensor including a retainer mounted adjacent said sprocket portion to couple a guide of said locking portion with a hook ring thereof, around an inner circumference of the retainer, a second sprocket is formed, a clutch wheel including an opening portion at a center, a first tooth portion formed on an inner circumference of said opening and a second tooth portion formed around an outer circumference thereof to be concentric with said first tooth portion and a mass member coupled with said clutch wheel and having a wing integrally extended in an arc around a circumference thereof and a latch member connected at one end to an inertia spring to be elastically supported, one end of the latch member being formed to be passed over tops of teeth of a first tooth portion of said clutch wheel; and
a vehicle sensor mounted adjacent said clutch wheel to engage with a second tooth portion of said clutch wheel.
2. The vehicular seatbelt retractor for winding and releasing a length of webbing from a spool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said load control further comprises a bushing of a flexible material fitted onto an outer circumference of said boss to reduce the friction between said disk and said boss.
3. The vehicular seatbelt retractor for winding and releasing a length of webbing from a spool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said mass member comprises said wing and said latch member positioned on a diametrical line to be faced to each other, in which said wing is integrally extended in an arc shape around a circumference of the mass member with a latch formed on its end being formed as a free end and said latch member is pivoted at a center in a groove to receive it with one end being elastically supported by said inertia spring and a latch being formed as a free end.