Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.

Gen Kinoshita

Masayuki Nakayasu

Hiroshi Harada

Shingo Oda

Kazuhiro Kato

The present invention provides a gas generator for a restraining apparatus of a vehicle, including a combustion chamber, a tabular cushion member being disposed on a bottom portion of the combustion chamber, the solid gas generating agent as a gas generating source, being charged in the combustion chamber inside the gas generator together with the cushion member, the combustion chamber being substantially in a cup shape in which an inner diameter (D) of an opening is smaller than an inner diameter (D) of the bottom portion, the cushion member including a circular portion serving as a base part and a plurality of protrusions protruding from a peripheral edge of the circular portion, an outer diameter (d) of the circular portion and the inner diameter (D) of the opening satisfying a relationship of d&#x3c;D, and an outer diameter (d) including the protrusions satisfying relationships of d&#x3e;Dand d&#x2266;D.

Gas generator having combustion chamber including cushion member

A gas generator includes a housing having a gas discharge port, a combustion chamber cup member disposed, in the housing, such that an opening portion thereof covers a bottom surface of the housing, the combustion chamber cup member having a communication hole at least a portion of its peripheral wall surface thereof, a metallic cover member covering the peripheral wall surface provided with the communication hole, and a combustion chamber being formed inside the combustion chamber cup member and accommodating a gas generating agent and an igniter therein, at the time of activation, the cover member expanding and deforming mainly in the radial direction to form a gap between the peripheral wall surface of the combustion cup member and the metallic cover member, which serves as a gas channel leading to the combustion chamber and the outside of the combustion chamber.

Gas generator

A gas generator for a restraining device includes a housing formed by joining and integrating a diffuser shell having a gas discharge port and a closure shell, and a gas generating agent, an igniter, and a cylindrical filter, accommodated inside the housing. The housing has a top plate, a circumferential wall surface, and a bottom plate, and a plurality of protruding portions concaved inwardly and formed with a distance from each other on at least either of an upper annular corner portion located at a boundary portion between the top plate and the circumferential wall surface and a lower annular corner portion located at a boundary portion between the bottom plate and the circumferential wall surface. Part of the cylindrical filter is supported and fixed by the plurality of protruding portions, and a gap is provided between an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical filter and the gas discharge hole.

Gas generator for restraining device

An igniter for an inflator has a heat generating body provided on a bottom surface of a pyrotechnic material accomodating space. By dripping a pyrotechnic material slurry including a fuel component and an oxidizing agent component dispersed in a solvent from above the accomodating space upon manufacturing the igniter, the heat generating body can be prevented from being damaged.

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