A life jacket with a cushioning air-bag comprises a jacket body (1), which includes a continuous torso air-bag portion (7) having a chest air-bag portion (2), a back air-bag portion (3), and a side air-bag portion (4), and further includes a neck air-bag portion (5) and a waist air-bag portion (6). The jacket body is provided with a gas generator (8) having a gas cartridge. Each of the air-bag portions (2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) has a dual structure composed of an outer bag (9) and an inner bag (10), wh...

A safety belt webbing emergency locking apparatus having one or more wedge shaped clamp members for clamping directly upon the safety belt webbing to prevent further safety belt protraction has biasing means for normally biasing the clamping means to a webbing clamping position, releasable retaining means for normally holding the clamping means in a webbing release position against the bias of the biasing means, vehicle inertia sensor means for sensing changes in vehicle inertia and operating th...

A chopping type electrical converter having a primary circuit utilizing controlled rectifiers for chopping the input voltage, a secondary circuit for providing a DC output voltage, and a control unit which continuously monitors current flow in the secondary circuit and delays trigger pulses to the controlled rectifiers in the primary circuit whenever it is unsafe or undesirable to trigger them. In a preferred embodiment, the controlled rectifiers are mounted in series-connected pairs with a step...

An automatically locking safety belt retractor has a belt storage spool with side mounted ratchet wheels, a locking bar pivotally mounted in the retractor side walls with pawl teeth for engaging the ratchet wheels, a programming ratchet wheel mounted to turn with the spool, a programming pawl and associated vehicle inertia sensor means mounted on the locking bar to cause the programming pawl to engage the programming ratchet wheel in response to actuation of the sensor means, the programming paw...

An emergency locking safety belt retractor having a modular locking pawl actuator subassembly for transferring the rotational movement of a webbing storage reel of the retractor to a locking pawl to move the locking pawl from a deactivated to an activated position in engagement with a locking ratchet to prevent further webbing protractive rotation of the reel. The actuator subassembly includes a shiftable housing containing a vehicle inertia sensor which activates a program pawl to engage a prog...

An integral track vehicle seat structure has a pair of laterally spaced side rails providing seat cushion mounting means, including a seat spring and seat back adjustment mechanism mounted to the side rails, a plurality of floor anchors for securing the side rails to the vehicle frame and an integral track formed integrally of the side rails and floor anchors including relatively adjustable and position lockable upper and lower track members each having an opened box section like configuration w...

A combination seat belt retractor particularly useful for motor vehicles is described. The seat belt retractor according to this invention converts between an emergency locking retractor which locks only when the vehicle is subjected to a deceleration level above a predetermined level to an automatic locking mode wherein the seat belt webbing cannot be withdrawn from the retractor. The convertible feature is particularly advantageous since an emergency locking retractor does not provide the desi...

An easy-to-service parts washer unit having separable components, including a cleaning fluid storage and transport receptacle, a sink unit and a fluid circulating unit. The receptacle is adapted to lie flat on a work bench or the like, and to lie beneath and support a sink disposed thereover. The fluid circulating unit includes a pump and motor, a filter, a dip tube which extends in use into the receptacle and a hose or the like portion which extends into the sink for directing fluid over parts ...

A locking apparatus for use with safety belts of the type protracted and retracted on a spool which is locked by inertia forces in an emergency. The safety belt passes through a clamping assembly which is activated upon sliding movement of the retractor reel from protraction forces in the locked state greater than a pre-established threshold amount.

A passive safety belt system has lap and chest belts with a common connector for releasably connecting inner ends of the belts to a safety belt buckle mounted by a floor anchor strap at a position adjacent the inboard hip of a passenger, outer ends of the belts are anchored in vehicle sensitive inertia retractors mounted on the vehicle door and the lap belt is moved automatically on opening of the vehicle door by lap belt lifting means operatively connected between the vehicle door and portions ...