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Pretensioner meaning
A mechanism to retract and tighten a seatbelt, prior to a crash.
Example sentences (3)
But when Wallin popped open the interior door panel, he found the seatbelt pretensioner system wasn’t plugged into the wiring harness, which would allow it to deploy.
In affected vehicles, increased temperatures generated during deployment of the driver or front-passenger seat belt anchor pretensioner could degrade the tensile strength of the cable below the level needed to restrain an occupant.
In the event of a crash, a pretensioner will tighten the belt almost instantaneously.