Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.

Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Yuzo Gotoh

Yasunori Iwai

Masayuki Nakayasu

Tadashi Yamamoto

Takashi Sasaki

Yasuo Ochiai

Masakazu Tokuda

Michiyasu Ito

Kazutoshi Hayashi

An air bag inflator has a cylindrical housing defining an internal space therein and having a convex portion protruding towards the internal space, and a cup member provided inside the cylindrical housing and having a cylindrical wall, provided with a vent hole that communicates inside the cup member with a space defined by the cup member and an inner surface of the cylindrical housing, and an end wall closing a first end of the cylindrical wall. The cup member is supported inside the cylindrical housing by making contact with the convex portion. An inflator assembly method includes, forming the convex portion, providing the cup member, and inserting the cup member inside the internal space of the cylindrical housing, such that the cup member abuts the convex portion.

Inflator for an air bag

An inflator for an air bag, includes, a tubular housing including a gas discharge portion, a first fixing member provided in an outer circumferential surface of the tubular housing for fixing the inflator to a vehicle, the first fixing member including a contacting surface fixed to the outer circumferential surface, and a non-contacting surface extending in a direction tangential to the outer circumferential surface from one end of the first fixing member without contacting the outer circumferential surface. The first fixing member has a rib that extends from the contacting surface to the non-contacting surface.

Inflator for air bag

Inflator for airbag

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Himeji, Japan

Yuzo Gotoh