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Gas pressure restraint, sensing and release systems

  • US 6,065,773 A
  • Filed: 03/24/1998
  • Issued: 05/23/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/19/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In apparatus for inflating a vehicular gas bag with gas from a bottle of compressed gas against an occupant in an emergency,the improvement comprising in combination:

  • a gas pressure sensor having a sensor input coupled to said compressed gas in said bottle prior to an emergency, and having a sensed pressure output;

    a variable gas inlet passage for said gas bag having a gas inlet passage variator coupled to said sensed pressure output;

    a variable gas venting passage positioned in circumvention of said gas inlet passage and inverse to said variable gas inlet passage, and having a gas venting passage variator coupled to said sensed pressure output; and

    a compressed gas release having a compressed gas outlet on said bottle connected to said gas inlet passage and to said variable gas venting passage.

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