GAS GENERATOR

• US 20090115175A1
• Filed: 09/13/2006
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nippon Kayaku Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nippon Kayaku Company Limited
• Inventors: Izaki, Naoki, Nishimura, Tsuyokazu
• Application Number:
  US12/063,750
• Publication Number:
  US 20090115175A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/741
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/26011 using a filter through which the inflation gas passes
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/2644 using only solid reacting substances, e.g. pellets, powder
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/274 characterised by means to rupture or open the fluid source

Abstract

A gas generator includes a shortened cylindrical housing constituted by a lower lid that is an initiator shell including an ignitor device, and an upper lid which is a closure shell for closing the lower lid. Additionally, in the housing, an ignitor device, gas generants, and a filter material are arranged in this order from the center. The ignitor device includes an igniting agent filled container including an igniter and igniting agents therein, and a cylinder body provided in a state adhered to an outside surface of the igniting agent filled container. The gas generator is capable of stabilizing an ignition performance by a simple constitution.

Claims

1. A gas generator comprising:

a metallic housing having a closure shell and an initiator shell;

a filter provided throughout an inner circumference of the housing in a circumferential direction;

a combustion chamber which is provided in the housing and in which gas generants for generating a high-temperature gas by combustion are housed; and

an ignitor device which is attached to the initiator shell and ignites and burns the gas generants in the combustion chamber,

and further comprising;

an igniting agent filled container which has the ignitor device therein and is filled with igniting agents; and

a cylinder body which is provided inside of the initiator shell and of which an inner wall is adhered to the whole outside of the igniting agent filled container,

wherein the combustion chamber is formed of a space surrounded by an inner wall of the initiator shell, an inner wall of the closure shell, an inner wall of a filter material and an outer wall of the cylinder body,

the cylinder body has flame spouting ports for spouting flame of the igniting agents into the combustion chamber on a side surface, and

parts corresponding to the flame spouting ports of the cylinder body of the igniting agent filled container are ruptured by an impact when the igniting agents are ignited by the ignitor device.

2. The gas generator according to claim 1,

wherein ends of the closure shell sides of the igniting agent filled container and the cylinder body are formed so as to be similar to each other in a shape of any one of flat, hemispheric, spherical band, cone, pyramid, polyhedron and staircase, and

flame spouting ports for rupturing predetermined parts of the end of the igniting agent filled container by an impact when the igniting agents are ignited by the ignitor device and for spouting flame of the igniting agents into the combustion chamber in a predetermined direction are formed in the end of the closure shell side of the cylinder body.

3. The gas generator according to claim 1,

wherein opening side ends of the igniting agent filled container and the cylinder body are formed in a flange shape to be collars, and

the collars of the igniting agent filled container and the cylinder body are crimped and fixed to the initiator shell together in a direction from a circumference side to inside.

4. The gas generator according to claim 1, wherein the igniting agent filled container is formed of aluminum, iron, steel, copper, alloy of these metals, or resin.

5. The gas generator according to claim 1, further comprising:

a pressing lid member for pressing and holding the filter in the housing,

wherein the filter has a plurality of through-holes in a side surface, and comprises a hollow cylinder, of which at least one bottom surface is opened, and a filter material formed on an outer circumference of the hollow cylinder, and

projecting parts of both ends of the hollow cylinder in an axis direction project from the filter material in the axis direction.

6. The gas generator according to claim 5,

wherein the hollow cylinder comprises:

a first through-hole group formed in a band-shaped region in a circumferential direction;

a second through-hole group formed in a band-shaped region and having a predetermined distance from the first through-hole group; and

a part which is formed between the first through-hole group and the second through-hole group, and has no through-hole, and

the ignitor device comprises flame transmitting holes through which flame is spouted toward the part having no through-hole when the ignitor device is ignited.

7. The gas generator according to claim 5,

wherein the pressing lid member holds outer circumferences of the projecting parts of both ends of the hollow cylinder in the axis direction, and seals openings of both ends of the hollow cylinder.

8. The gas generator according to claim 5, wherein the projecting parts of both ends of the hollow cylinder in the axis direction have no through-hole.

9. The gas generator according to claim 5,

wherein the through-hole is formed in a desired shape, size and position so that a part of the cylinder body blocks flame spouted from the igniter at the ignition to protect the filter material and to control a gas flow path when the filter is built into the gas generator having the igniter.

10. The gas generator according to claim 5,

wherein the filter material comprises:

a first filtering-cooling part formed on an outer circumference of the hollow cylinder; and

a second filtering-cooling part which is formed on an outer circumference of the first filtering-cooling part and is shorter than the first filtering-cooling part in the axis direction, and

the first filtering-cooling part and the second filtering-cooling part form a staircase shape on at least one of the projecting parts of both ends in the axis direction.

11. The gas generator according to claim 5, wherein the filter material is in a winding shape formed by winding a wire around an outer circumference of the hollow cylinder.

12. The gas generator according to claim 5, wherein the filter material is formed by winding a metal plate around an outer circumference of the hollow cylinder, the metal plate having a plurality of holes and having projecting parts on circumferences of the holes.

13. The gas generator according to claim 5, wherein the hollow cylinder is formed by processing a wire netting or porous plate.

14. The gas generator according to claim 2,

wherein opening side ends of the igniting agent filled container and the cylinder body are formed in a flange shape to be collars, and

the collars of the igniting agent filled container and the cylinder body are crimped and fixed to the initiator shell together in a direction from a circumference side to inside.

15. The gas generator according to claim 2, wherein the igniting agent filled container is formed of aluminum, iron, steel, copper, alloy of these metals, or resin.

16. The gas generator according to claim 2, further comprising:

a pressing lid member for pressing and holding the filter in the housing,

wherein the filter has a plurality of through-holes in a side surface, and comprises a hollow cylinder, of which at least one bottom surface is opened, and a filter material formed on an outer circumference of the hollow cylinder, and

projecting parts of both ends of the hollow cylinder in an axis direction project from the filter material in the axis direction.