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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 24, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Lee D Bergerson, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Ivan L Stonich, Hermosa Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
TRW Vehicle Safety Systems Inc., Lyndhurst, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
280741 ; 102201 ;
Abstract
An air bag inflator (22) includes a source (40) of inflation fluid for inflating the air bag (20), and includes an initiator (30) which, when actuated, initiates a flow of the inflation fluid from the source (40) to the air bag (20) to inflate the air bag (20). The initiator (30) includes pyrotechnic material (100) and a laser diode (106). The laser diode (106) emits laser light which ignites the pyrotechnic material (100) when the initiator (30) is actuated.