US Patent Issued to AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT on Feb. 24 for "Seatbelt retractor having an electrically actuatable blocking device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,058, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Seatbelt retractor having an electrically actuatable blocking device" was invented by Philip Rings (Norderstedt, Germany) and Florian Kunzler (Wedel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seatbelt retractor having a toothed control disk on a belt shaft and an electrically actuatable blocking device and a blocking lever mounted in a pivot bearing, wherein the electrically actuatable blocking device stops the control disk with respect to the belt shaft and, as a result, the belt shaft is blocked in the pull-out direction, wherein the blocking lever h...