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Automotive passenger restraint and protection apparatus and seatbelt protraction and retraction amount-detecting device

  • US 20040108697A1
  • Filed: 11/19/2003
  • Published: 06/10/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/16/1997
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An automotive passenger restraint and protection apparatus for an automotive vehicle, having a seatbelt, for restraining an occupant of the automotive vehicle by the seatbelt to protect the occupant, comprising:

  • an electric retractor having driving means for retracting and protracting the seatbelt;

    control means for controlling said driving means;

    seatbelt attaching detecting means for detecting whether the seatbelt is attached to the occupant or disconnected from the occupant; and

    retraction limit detecting means for detecting whether the seatbelt has been retracted to a limit thereof;

    wherein said control means controls said driving means in a manner such that when said seatbelt attaching detecting means detects that the seatbelt has become attached to the occupant from a state in which it is disconnected from the occupant, the seatbelt is retracted, and when said retraction limit detecting means subsequently detects that the seatbelt has been retracted to said limit thereof, the seatbelt is stopped from being retracted.

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