Land vehicles – Wheeled – Attachment
Patent
1974-01-25
1976-06-29
Wood, Jr., M. H.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Attachment
137 68R, 222 5, B60R 2108
Patent
active
039662268
ABSTRACT:
An occupant restraint system including a confinement with a collapsed inoperative condition and an expanded operative condition for restraining movement of an occupant of a vehicle during a collision of the vehicle, a fluid supply, and a diffuser for directing gas from the fluid supply into the confinement. The fluid supply includes a pressure vessel having a chamber for housing a gas generating material and an oxidizing gas. The gas generating material is combusted upon the occurrence of the collision of the vehicle to generate gas. The oxidizing gas is pressurized and reacts with the generated gas to augment the combustion process and thereby reduce the toxicity of the generated gas, and is present in a sufficient quantity to cool the generated gas to an acceptable temperature. A shear disk, seals a passage between the chamber in the pressure vessel and the diffuser. This disk is ruptured by a shear piston propelled by the pressure increase occurring upon combustion of the gas generating material.
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Eaton Corporation
Silverstrim John P.
Wood, Jr. M. H.
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