Gas generator for a safety system for protecting occupants in motor vehicles

US5611566A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• TEMIC Bayern-Chemie Airbag GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Josef V. Simon · Olching, DE
• Thomas J. Liebl · Donnelly, US
• Hermann Bauer · Wolnzach, DE
• Ludwig Oswald · Grafing, DE
• Robert Schmucker · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 17, 1995
• Grant date: Mar 18, 1997
• Expiry date: Jan 17, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R21/2644
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Gas generator for a safety system for the protection of occupants of motor vehicles, with a tubular or cylindrical housing, wherein the gas-generating solid propellant is contained in a combustion chamber within which volume-equalizing structure is arranged, surrounding the propellant, both in the direction of flow--along the principal axis--and peripherally over the entire circumference.