Gas generant for air bag

• US 6,527,886 B1
• Filed: 03/31/1997
• Issued: 03/04/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Daicel Chemical Industries Limited (Daicel Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Daicel Chemical Industries Limited (Daicel Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsuda, Naoki, Yamato, Yo, Hirata, Norimasa, Takahori, Takeshi, Yokoyama, Takushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Carone, Michael J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): FELTON, AILEEN BAKER
• Application Number:
  US08/832,610
• Time in Patent Office: 2,164 Days
• Field of Search: 149/45, 149/46, 102/288, 102/289, 102/292, 280/736, 280/737
• US Class Current: 149/45
• CPC Class Codes: C06B 45/00 Compositions or products which are defined by structure or arrangement of component of product explosive charges of particular form or shape F42B1/00, F42B3/00
• CPC Class Codes: C06D 5/06 by reaction of two or more solids

Abstract

A gas-generant-molded-article for air bags which is prepared by molding a gas generant composition into a cylindrical form containing an opening hole, wherein the relationship between the linear burning velocity r (mm/second) of said gas generant composition under a pressure of 70 kgf/cm² and a thickness W (mm) of said molded article falls within a range represented by 0.005≦W/(2·r)≦0.3, with the linear burning velocity preferably falling within a range of from 1 to 12.5 mm/second.

Claims

1. A gas-generant-molded-article for air bags comprising a gas generant composition having a linear burning velocity falling within a range of from 1 to 12.5 mm/second and having a cylindrical form containing an opening hole, wherein the relationship between the linear burning velocity r (mm/second) of said gas generant composition under a pressure of 70 kgf/cm² and a thickness W (mm) of said molded article falls within a range represented by 0.005≦

W/(2·

r)≦

0.3.

2. The gas-generant-molded-article for air bags as recited in claim 1, wherein the opening hole in the cylindrical form extends therethrough.

3. The gas-generant-molded-article for air bags as recited in claim 1 or 2, wherein the linear burning velocity falls within a range of from 5 to 12.5 mm/second under a pressure of 70 kgf/cm².

4. The gas-generant-molded-article for air bags as recited in claim 1, wherein the outer diameter of the cylindrical molded article containing an opening hole is 6 mm or less and the ratio of the length to the thickness is 1 or more.

5. The gas-generant-molded-article for air bags as recited in claim 1, wherein the outer diameter of the cylindrical molded article having an opening hole is from 1.5 to 3 mm and the length thereof is from 0.5 to 5 mm.

6. The gas-generant-molded-article for air bags as recited in claim 1, wherein the gas generant composition comprises a binder, optionally a slag-forming agent, a nitrogen-containing organic compound and an oxidizing agent.

7. The gas-generant-molded-article for air bags as recited in claim 1, wherein the gas generant composition is produced by adding a binder and optionally a slag-forming agent to a nitrogen-containing organic compound and an oxidizing agent.

8. The gas-generant-molded-article for air bags as recited in claim 6, wherein the gas generant composition comprises (a) 25 to 60% by weight of the nitrogen-containing organic compound, (b) 40 to 65% by weight of the oxidizing agent, (c) 1 to 20% by weight of the slag-forming agent, and (d) 3 to 12% by weight of the binder.

11. A gas-generant-molded-article for air bags as recited in claim 6, wherein the nitrogen-containing organic compound is dicyandiamide, the oxidizing agent is strontium nitrate and copper oxide, and the binder is the sodium salt of carboxymethyl cellulose.

12. The gas-generant-molded-article for air bags as recited in claim 11, wherein 8 to 20% by weight of dicyandiamide, 11.5 to 55% by weight of strontium nitrate, 24.5 to 80% by weight of copper oxide, and 0.5 to 8% by weight of the sodium salt of carboxymethyl cellulose are contained therein.

14. The gas-generant-molded-article as claimed in claim 1, in which the relationship falls within a range represented by 0.005≦

W/(2·

r)≦

0.1.

9. A gas-generant-molded-article for air bags comprising a gas generant composition comprising a binder, a slag forming agent, a nitrogen-containing organic compound, and an oxidizing agent, said composition having a linear burning velocity falling within a range of from 1 to 12.5 mm/second and having a cylindrical form containing an opening hole, wherein the relationship between the linear burning velocity r (mm/second) of said gas generant composition under a pressure of 70 kgf/cm² and a thickness W (mm) of said molded article falls within a range represented by 0.005≦

W/(2·

r)≦

0.3, wherein the nitrogen-containing organic compound is nitroguanidine, the oxidizing agent is strontium nitrate, the binder is the sodium salt of carboxymethyl cellulose, and the slag forming agent is Japanese acid clay.

10. The gas-generant-molded-article for air bags as recited in claim 9, wherein the gas generant composition comprises (a) 25 to 60% by weight of nitroguanidine, (b) 40 to 65% by weight of strontium nitrate, (c) 1 to 20% by weight of Japanese acid clay, and (d) 3 to 12% by weight of the sodium salt of carboxymethyl cellulose.

13. An inflater system containing as a gas generant therein, a gas-generant-molded-article for air bags comprising a gas generant composition having a linear burning velocity falling within a range of from 1 to 12.5 mm/second and having a cylindrical form containing an opening hole wherein the relationship between the linear burning velocity r (mm/second) of said gas generant composition under a pressure of 70 kgf/cm² and a thickness W (mm) of said molded article falls within a range represented by 0.005≦

W/(2·

r)≦

0.3.