ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,439, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT AB (Vargarda, Sweden).
"Tensioning device for a safety belt component" was invented by Saskia Vollmer (Elmshorn, Germany), Andre Gajek (Norderstedt, Germany) and Dietmar Legde (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tensioning device for a safety belt component, comprising a gas generator for generating a pressurized gas, a piston that can be driven by the pressurized gas, a tension cable that is connected to the piston and is connectable to a safety belt component to be set into a tensioning movement, a tensioner tube for receiving and guiding the piston, and a g...