US Patent Issued to AUTOLIV ASP on Jan. 13 for "Retractor pretensioner assembly" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,171, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AUTOLIV ASP INC. (Ogden, Utah).

"Retractor pretensioner assembly" was invented by Bin Wang (Lake Orion, Mich.), Christopher D. Hall (Algonac, Mich.), Jon E. Burrow (Ortonville, Mich.) and Kenneth Kohlndorfer (Roseville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seatbelt pretensioner system includes a pretensioner tube in fluid communication with a gas generator and a pretensioner rod having a proximal end portion disposed toward the gas generator and a distal end portion disposed at an exit of the pretensioner tube. The pretensioner rod is disposed inside the pretensioner tube in a pre-actuation s...