Light weight vehicle restraint bag inflator
CA 1310675 C · Owner: Morton Thiokol, Inc. · Inventors: Cunningham, Donald J.
Overview
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A lightweight and inexpensive inflator for a vehicle passenger side restraint bag. The inflator includes a thin igniter housing member and also includes a thin arcuate barrier member which defines a combustion chamber for holding gas generant material for combustion thereof. The inflator housing has generated gas outlet apertures only on one side and the barrier member faces that side so that generated gas is directed toward the other side of the housing and is then redirected through a filter pack to the apertures. The filter pack includes a plenum providing screen which is blocked to the entrance of redirected gas by the pressing of other layers of the filter pack against the housing wall …
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- Granted November 24, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended November 24, 2009.
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