Patent ID: 8419067

Claim:
An occupant-restraint system for use in a vehicle, the system comprising an extensible restraint strap including an upper anchor fastener adapted to be coupled to an upper anchor included in a vehicle, a lower anchor fastener adapted to be coupled to a lower anchor arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the upper anchor, and a web interconnecting the upper and lower anchor fasteners, the web including a first strap segment coupled to the lower anchor fastener, a third strap segment coupled to the upper anchor fastener, and a second strap segment interconnecting the first and third strap segments, and a controlled-slippage clamp coupled to portions of the first and third strap segments to form a variable-size web loop comprising the second strap segment and configured to compress the portions of the first and third strap segments at a predetermined clamping load to allow controlled slippage of the web in the controlled-slippage clamp in response to application of a tugging force to the first strap segment to reduce the variable-size web loop in size and to increase an effective length of the extensible restraint strap.