Trw Airbag Systems Gmbh

Christian Bichlmaier

Siegfried Zeuner

Michael Niehaus

Klaus Bernau

Sebastian Reichgruber

Thomas Nobach

Sebastian Herler

An inflator () comprises at least one combustion chamber (), filled with a plurality of solid propellant pellets (), each of the solid propellant pellets () including a surface having a breaking point () which is delimited at least by two converging surfaces () produced by pressing. A method of manufacturing solid propellant pellets (), includes the steps of providing a solid propellant (), pressing the solid propellant () into a pellet blank (), the pellet blank () having at least one predetermined breaking point () which divides the pellet blank () into at least two subareas (), and breaking the pellet blank () along the at least one predetermined breaking point (), wherein each of the at least two subareas () forms a solid propellant pellet ().

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Schonberg, Germany

Christian Bichlmaier