Gas generator

US6682708B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• TRW Airbag Systems GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Siegfried Zeuner · Hersbruck, DE
• Achim Hofmann · Polling, DE
• Roland Schropp · Tegernheim, DE
• Josef Werneth · Ampfing, DE
• Andreas Zehentmeier · Ampfing, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 16, 2000
• Grant date: Jan 27, 2004
• Expiry date: Sep 27, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2021/2648
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a gas generator for generating gases, comprising a housing which has an interior space and at least one combustion chamber filled with a predetermined quantity of solid propellant. The propellant consists of a plurality of solid propellant parts arranged in the combustion chamber in an irregular manner. The compressed gas is stored in a predetermined quantity in the combustion chamber and the combustion chamber constructed as a pressure chamber sealed hermetically toward outside in a non-activated state of the gas generator.