Gas generating mixture

US5677510A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. · US

Inventors

• Klaus M. Bucerius · Karlsruhe, DE
• Norbert Eisenreich · Remchingen, DE
• Helmut Schmid · Freudenstadt, DE
• Walter Engel · Schwerzenbach, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 24, 1995
• Grant date: Oct 14, 1997
• Expiry date: Nov 24, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C06B31/00
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A gas generating mixture comprises a high nitrogen and low carbon fuel from he group nitroguanidine (NIGU), tiraminoguanidine nitrate (TAGN), diguanidinium-5,5'-azotetrazolate (GZT) or 3-nitro-l,2,3-triazol-5-one (NTO), as well as copper diammine dinitrate Cu(NH.sub.3).sub.2 (NO.sub.3).sub.2 as the oxidizer and a pyrophoric metal or such a metal alloy on a carrier catalyst.