Variable output driver side hybrid inflator

Details Variable output driver side hybrid inflator Variable output driver side hybrid inflator

1996-09-09

1998-12-22

Rice, Kenneth R.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

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280741, B60R 2116

Patent

active

058510273

ABSTRACT:
A variable output inflator (20) for use in inflating an air bag or air cushion comprising: a pressure vessel (22) comprising a thin walled toroidal pressure vessel portion (23) and a cylindrical pressure vessel portion (60) circumscribed by, in physical contact and in fluid communication with the toroidal pressure vessel portion, the cylindrical pressure vessel portion including a rupturable disk (74) and at least one exit port (78) communicable with an air bag; a pyrotechnic member (200a,b) for heating stored inflation gas within the pressure vessel to a pressure level to rupture the rupturable disk, allowing heated inflation gas to exit and fill an adjacently attached air bag.

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patent: 4131300 (1978-12-01), Radke et al.
patent: 5199740 (1993-04-01), Frantom et al.
patent: 5423570 (1995-06-01), Kort et al.
patent: 5516147 (1996-05-01), Clark et al.
patent: 5584505 (1996-12-01), O'Looughlin et al.

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