US Patent Issued to Autoliv Development on Feb. 3 for "Seatbelt retractor unit and vehicle having a seatbelt retractor unit of this type" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,822, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Seatbelt retractor unit and vehicle having a seatbelt retractor unit of this type" was invented by Philip Rings (Norderstedt, Germany) and Fooke Kutscher (Elmshorn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt retractor unit with a housing, a belt reel rotatably mounted in this housing, a blocking unit for blocking the belt reel against the housing, wherein the blocking unit has an actuator unit with an electromagnet and a control apparatus for controlling the electromagnet, which has a power input, a power output connected to the electromagnet and at ...