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Adaptive output passenger disk inflator

  • US 20030146611A1
  • Filed: 02/06/2002
  • Published: 08/07/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2002
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A vehicular inflatable restraint system inflator device comprising:

  • a housing, the housing having a disk form and defining a first chamber, the first chamber in a static state containing a quantity of a first gas generant material ignitable to produce first combustion products including a first inflation gas, the housing having at least a first and a second row of spaced apart gas exit ports adapted to permit passage of the first inflation gas from the inflator device into an associated inflatable airbag cushion;

    the first chamber containing at least one inflation gas-permeable treatment element disposed between the quantity of the first gas generant material and the at least two rows of spaced apart gas exit ports, wherein passage of gas through the treatment element results in treatment thereof;

    the first chamber also containing a second chamber;

    the second chamber in a static state having an enclosed volume containing a quantity of a second gas generant material ignitable to produce second combustion products;

    the second chamber having a lid closure adapted to permit fluid communication of the second combustion products with the contents of the first chamber;

    a first initiator device operatively associated with the first chamber; and

    a second initiator device operatively associated with the second chamber;

    the inflator device discharging sufficient inflation gas to inflate a passenger inflatable airbag cushion.

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