Gas generator

• US 20070046006A1
• Filed: 08/15/2006
• Published: 03/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Daicel Chemical Industries Limited (Daicel Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Daicel Chemical Industries Limited (Daicel Corporation)
• Inventors: Katsuda, Nobuyuki, Yabuta, Mikio
• Application Number:
  US11/503,914
• Publication Number:
  US 20070046006A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/740
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/2171 specially adapted for elongated cylindrical or bottle-like inflators with a symmetry axis perpendicular to the main direction of bag deployment, e.g. extruded reaction canisters B60R21/2176 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/261 with means other than bag structure to diffuse or guide inflation fluid

Abstract

The present invention provides gas generator including a module case forming a housing having a gas discharge port and including a combustion chamber therein, the combustion chamber accommodating an igniter and a gas generating agent inside a combustion chamber housing, an opening, for discharging gas, being generated in the combustion chamber housing when the gas generating agent is ignited and burnt to generate gas by activation of the igniter.

Claims

1. A gas generator, comprising a module case forming a housing having a gas discharge port and a combustion chamber included in the module, the combustion chamber accommodating an igniter and a gas generating agent inside a combustion chamber housing, an opening being generated in the combustion chamber housing to discharge gas when the gas generating agent is ignited and burnt to generate gas by activation of the igniter.

2. The gas generator according to claim 1, wherein a cross section of the combustion chamber housing in a width direction thereof is elliptical.

3. The gas generator according to claim 1, wherein the module case can be divided into two parts, and only one of the two divided parts has the gas discharge port.

4. The gas generator according to claim 2, wherein the module case can be divided into two parts, and only one of the two divided parts has the gas discharge port.