Patent ID: 6416007
Filing Date: 2002-07-09
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
A belt retractor for a vehicle occupant seat belt, comprising a belt reel (14) rotatably mounted in a housing (12), a torsion bar (21) extending in the interior of said belt reel (14) and connected by its first axial end (22) non-rotatably to said belt reel (14) and by its second axial end (26) non-rotatably to a ratchet disk (18), and comprising a ratchet toothing (16) as well as a load-bearing ratchet pawl (42) in engagement with said ratchet toothing (16) to block said belt reel (14), said torsion bar having a first section (28) as well as a second section (30), the cross-section of which is smaller than that of said first section (28), an arresting portion (24) being configured between said first and second sections (28, 30) and a bypass element (34) being provided which is transposed from a starting position bridging said second section of said torsion bar into a release position in which said second section of said torsion bar is released, characterized in that a positioning sleeve (32) is arranged non-rotatably on said first axial end of said torsion bar, said positioning sleeve comprising an end face facing said second axial end (26) of said torsion bar, which end face is configured as a control cam (40) with which the end face (44) of said bypass sleeve (34) facing said first axial end (22) of said torsion bar is in contact.