Automotive
Technical Paper

PASSIVE AND SEMI-PASSIVE SEAT BELTS FOR INCREASED OCCUPANT SAFETY

720438

2/1/1972

Event
National Automobile Engineering Meeting
Authors
H. George Johannessen Hamill Manufacturing Co., Division of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
Gerald A. Yates Hamill Manufacturing Co., Division of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
Abstract
Content
Developments leading to passive seat belts are discussed. A problem in semantics is identified, and a distinction is drawn between “passive” and “semi-passive” seat belts.
A low-injury passive seat belt precursor is described, having a continuous webbing loop for lap and shoulder belt and an emergency-locking retractor. The seat belt system indicates potential for improving upon present seat belt systems, and with identifiable modifications, being converted into a passive occupant restraint configuration, and being later modified to provide 40-mph crash survival capability.
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Topics
Safety belts
Affiliated or Co-Author
Hamill Manufacturing Co., Division of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
Details
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/720438
Citation
Johannessen, H. and Yates, G., "PASSIVE AND SEMI-PASSIVE SEAT BELTS FOR INCREASED OCCUPANT SAFETY," National Automobile Engineering Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, United States, May 22, 1972, https://doi.org/10.4271/720438.
Additional Details
Publisher
SAE International
Published
2/1/1972
Product Code
720438
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English