Patent ID: 6511008
Filing Date: 2003-01-28
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
A seat belt retractor comprising:a reel for a seat belt having a rotary shaft with a cylindrical peripheral surface and an end, said end having a spherical surface projecting axially outwardly from an edge of the cylindrical peripheral surface of the shaft to have a lower facing portion facing downwardly at the spherical surface, a bearing rotationally supporting the end of the rotary shaft, and a rotary shaft end support formed in the bearing and having an opposing surface opposing the end of the rotary shaft for rotationally supporting the end of the rotary shaft directly, said opposing surface having a spherical support surface corresponding to at least a part of the spherical surface of the end of the rotary shaft and formed at at least a lower part thereof, said spherical support surface axially extending toward the shaft to be located under the lower facing portion of the end of the rotary, shaft to at least partly support the lower facing portion thereat.