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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2022
Applicant:
Acs Industries, Inc., Lincoln, RI (US);
Inventor:
Steven D. Huntsman, North Ogden, UT (US);
Assignee:
ACS Industries, Inc., Lincoln, RI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 21/264 (2006.01); B01D 39/12 (2006.01); B60R 21/26 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 21/2644 (2013.01); B01D 39/12 (2013.01); B01D 2239/0695 (2013.01); B01D 2239/10 (2013.01); B01D 2239/1291 (2013.01); B01D 2279/10 (2013.01); B60R 2021/26011 (2013.01);
Abstract
A flattened expanded metal strip () is wrapped into an airbag inflator filter () with the strip oriented such that the flattened rough side () of the strip is pointing toward the inside diameter (ID) of the filter and the flattened smooth side () is pointing towards the outside diameter (OD). With this orientation, the filter () is able to capture more slag than filters made using the standard wrapping method in which the smooth side is oriented inward. The expanded metal can be of various types including, for example, variable expanded metal (VEM) or standard expanded metal (SEM).