Patent ID: 6986480

Claim:
A force limiter provided on a belt retractor, said belt retractor comprising a belt spool ( 1 ) that is rotatably mounted in a frame ( 10 ) and has at least one flange ( 1 a ) and a disk ( 2 ) that can be non-rotatably blocked on said frame, characterized in that said disk ( 2 ) and said flange ( 1 a ) of said belt spool ( 1 ) are adapted to be coupled by a cutting element ( 3 ) which, with a relative rotation between said disk ( 2 ) and said flange ( 1 a ), comes into a coupling position and cuts material when said relative rotation is continued, wherein said cutting element ( 3 ) is accommodated in a recess ( 12 ) of said disk ( 2 ) and supported for movement in an axial direction as well as in a circumferential direction, and in that said cutting element has a blade that in said coupling position engages on an end face of said flange ( 1 a ) opposite to said blade, and wherein said flange ( 1 a ) has a control pin ( 5 ) that transfers said cutting element ( 3 ) by means of an inclined plane axially into said coupling position, when said relative rotation between said disk ( 2 ) and said flange ( 1 a ) occurs.