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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1997
Nobuyuki Katsuda, Himeji, JP;
Shogo Tomiyama, Himeji, JP;
Daicel Chemical Industries Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
To provide a gas generator for an air bag that is designed to have a sufficient and fix seal at the area where igniting means is installed, with which a housing having a reduced weight is possible, and which manufacture is easy. In a gas generator for an air bag composed to include a housing which has gas discharge ports, igniting means which is activated by an impact, and gas generating means which is ignited by the igniting means and burns and generates a combustion gas, a gas generator for an air bag which is made by having the igniting means provided with a cylindrical collar member used for an attachment on its outer circumference, having the housing provided with an igniting means attaching member that has a cylindrical inner circumferential surface in which the cylindrical collar member fits, having the inner circumferential surface and/or outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical collar member provided with a groove in the circumferential direction, and having the seal member attached by pressing it inside the groove.