Airbag cushions and related assemblies configured to accept side-mounting of airbag inflators and/or otherwise accommodate narrowing of an airbag module width. In some embodiments, the assembly may comprise an inflator housing defining a plenum. An airbag cushion may be fluidly coupled with the…
An integral ignition structure and a compressed-gas-type fuel gas generator are provided. The integral ignition structure comprises an ignition box, an igniter, and an end cover, wherein the ignition box is open at one end, and has a closed end and an open end opposite to each other; the igniter is…
A joining connection for an airbag igniter includes an electrically insulating component including a glass and at least two joining partners, the at least two joining partners being kept electrically insulated from one another by the electrically insulating component.
An inflator cap comprising: an outer cover; an anti-corrosion lining formed in or inside the outer cover; and a magnetic member formed on, in or inside the outer cover, whereby the magnetic member of the inflator cap, once unscrewed from the inflator, will be magnetically attractable on a…
The invention relates to a propellant tablet (20) for pyrotechnic safety devices in vehicles, such as airbag modules, seat belt pretensioners, microgenerators, and igniters. The propellant tablet according to the invention has a substantially cylindrical shape and is obtainable by dry pressing a…
In the context of the method for locating occupant protection and restraint systems of a damaged motor vehicle, the gas generators of the airbag systems and the seat belt tensioners of the motor vehicle are located by means of an active or passive RFID chip respectively, which is attached to the…
A gas generator (1A) includes a lower shell (10) as a housing, an igniter (40) including a squib cup (44) and a plug (43), and a fixing portion (30) formed from a resin molding for fixing the igniter (40) to the lower shell (10). The squib cup (44) includes a contact portion (A) in contact with the…
This igniter has a heating element, an ignition agent positioned so as to be in contact with the heating element, and conductive pins that pass through an insulating layer, and are electrically connected to the heating element. One end of each conductive pin is exposed through the insulating layer…
The invention relates to a device (1) designed as a jet pump with a gas generator (2) for generating a pressurized gas flow (3), wherein the gas generator (2) is equipped with a pyrotechnic propellant charge (4) designed as a cutting or shaped charge. This pyrotechnic propellant charge (4) serves…
The present invention provides a gas generator, including: a housing (10) forming an outer shell and including a top plate (11a), a bottom plate(12a) and a circumferential wall(13, 16) provided with a gas discharge port (14); in the housing (10), an ignition device chamber(30) defined by a…
Inflator module assembly comprising: a module housing (12) having a plurality of gas discharge openings (36); an inflator (14) housed within said housing (12), said inflator (14), upon actuation, emitting gas from one lateral side or end thereof, and a gas treatment assembly (16) mounted within…
To reduce the size of a disc-type, two-stage output inflator. [0002] An inflator includes: an inflator case (12) that is configured from a bottomed cylindrical upper case (42) and lower case (41), with the inflator case (12) having an upper combustion chamber (62) and a lower combustion chamber…
A steel tube for an airbag which has a low alloy cost and a strength of at least 1000 MPa and vTrs100 of -80° C or below and a process for its manufacture which can minimize the number of times that softening annealing treatment is performed in a cold drawing step are provided. Stable properties…
A gas generator (1A) includes an elongated cylindrical housing (10), a partition plate (40) partitioning the space within the housing (10) into a gas generating agent storing chamber (16) and a filter chamber (17) in the axial direction, and an igniter (30). A filter (60) is made of a cylindrical…
To ensure that a wire wound filter can be incorporated into a base of a pressure vessel easily, the present invention provides an airbag inflator in which a pressure vessel 2 constituted by a base 2b and a diffuser 2a accommodates an igniter 3, a gas generating agent 4, a filter 21, and an inner…
A high strength steel pipe for an airbag system has a steel composition comprising C: 0.05 - 0.20 %, Si: 0.1 - 1.0 %, P: at most 0.025 %, S: at most 0.010 %, Cr: 0.05 - 1.0 %, Al: at most 0.10 %, at least one of Ti and Mn satisfying (1) Ti ≤ 0.02% and (2) 0.4% ≤ Mn + 40Ti ≤ 1.2%, and a remainder of…
The module (10) has a gas generator (14) for filling an airbag (16) and a gas conducting device within the module that forces at least part of the gas flow emanating from the gas generator in a predefined, uniform flow direction. The module has an outflow opening (20) that can be enabled and the…
An air bag inflator has a cylindrical housing (11) defining an internal space therein and having a convex portion (13) protruding towards the internal space, and a cup member (30) provided inside the cylindrical housing (11) and having a cylindrical wall (31), provided with a vent hole (33) that…
An inflator processing apparatus adapted to prevent damage to a furnace wall refractory and the melting of a metal case for an inflator during an operation of a chemical in the thermal processing of the inflator containing the gas generating chemical. Specifically, an inflator processing apparatus…
The present invention provides a gas generator for an air bag capable of easily adjusting a volume ratio of two combustion chambers while reducing the gas generator in size. A diameter of an inner cylinder 15 disposed in a housing 11 is increased and reduced depending upon its vertical position…
The present invention provides a gas generator for an air bag where an operation performance is excellent and an amount of NOx generation is reduced. When a flame from a second igniter 32 advances just upwardly to ignite and burn a transfer charge 36, flame-transferring holes 46 communicating with…
Air bag device, especially a side air bag device, for a motor vehicle comprises a gas generator, and a gas filling tube (12) provided with gas outlet openings (13) and connected to an inflatable air bag. The gas outlet openings are formed by cut-outs (17) in the wall of the gas filling tube and by…
The present invention provides an inflator reduced in size and improved in rupturability of a rupturable plate. A rupturable plate 29 is fixed between a gas introducing chamber 22 and an igniter accommodating chamber 26, and the central axes of an igniter 24 and the rupturable plate 29 are…
The present invention provides an inflator in which rupturing ability of a rupturable plate is improved. An igniter 26 accommodated in a diffuser portion 20 has, on a peripheral face of a cup 28 covering an igniting portion, a hole 29 covered with a sealing tape from the inside of the cup, and the…
The present invention provides an inflator for a side collision in which an inflation condition for an air bag can be adjusted according to a variety of builds of passengers and further size reduction can be achieved. Gas discharging ports are provided at axial both sides of an inflator having two…
The present invention relates to a hose for introduction and distribution of inflator gas which is characterized in that the hose is placed in an air bag apparatus for side collision and distributes the inflator gas upon operation of the air bag, that outside surface and/or inside surface of the…
There is provided a squib that does not electrically affect an external signal wire that supplies power and command signals when a supplemental restraint system is operated. An igniting agent (53) is positioned above a pin (51a) that is a connecting terminal that is provided in order to provide a…
The gas generator is for the inflating of an airbag by a gas flow from a compressed gas vessel sealable by a destructible sealing element. An aroma substance is added to the gas stored in the compressed gas vessel in order to fill the airbag with a mixture of the gas and aroma substance. The gas…
The present invention provides an inflator which has a sufficient operation performance and secures an operation reliability and operation safety and is manufactured easily. There is provided an inflator provided with a first passage for guiding activation energy of an igniter and a second passage…
The present invention provides an inflator in which a flow amount of a pressurized gas can be kept almost constant. Fragments produced by rupture of a first rupturable plate 22 are arrested around a top 20b of an inner surface of a filter 20, and the remaining portion of the inner surface does not…