Air bag filter and seal arrangement

Land vehicles – Wheeled – Attachment

Patent

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

280741, B60R 2128

Patent

active

055647413

ABSTRACT:
A filter, seal and port arrangement for a pyrotechnic air bag inflator. The seal consists of a ring or annulus of sheet metal which has a foot section abutting against the filter, and a leg section of the seal angled to form an interference fit against an interior wall of the generator housing. For annular filters used in axial flow inflators, a ring is used at the radially inner and outer edges of the annular filter. For tubular filters used in radial flow inflators, a single seal at a longitudinal end may be sufficient. With such tubular filters, the seal may include a stand-off to form an annular void between the radially outer face of the filter and the wall of the housing. This void will act as a plenum to ensure that a greater volume of the filter is used. The tubular filter itself may also be formed with raised lands such that the interposed grooves form such a plenum. In a similar manner the disk filters may also have plenum producing lands on their outer faces, or the housing may include such lands. The housing may also be provided with tangentially oriented ports between the ignitor and the gas generating material to increase the contact area between the combusting ignitor and the generant, and to reduce the impingement force produced by the combusting ignitor.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3785674 (1974-01-01), Poole et al.
patent: 3791302 (1974-02-01), McLeodd
patent: 3797854 (1974-03-01), Poole et al.
patent: 3972545 (1976-08-01), Kirchoff et al.
patent: 4116466 (1978-09-01), Gehrig
patent: 4136894 (1979-01-01), Ono et al.
patent: 5087070 (1992-02-01), O'Loughlin et al.
patent: 5139280 (1992-08-01), Cord et al.
patent: 5152550 (1992-10-01), Hoagland et al.
patent: 5184846 (1993-02-01), Goetz
patent: 5215721 (1993-06-01), Tasaki et al.
patent: 5224734 (1993-07-01), Swiderski et al.
patent: 5466420 (1995-11-01), Parker et al.

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for the USA inventors and patents. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

Air bag filter and seal arrangement does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Air bag filter and seal arrangement, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Air bag filter and seal arrangement will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-1240877

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.