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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2003
J B Canterberry, Apollo Beach, FL (US);
Donald Bowers, Tampa, FL (US);
J B Canterberry, Apollo Beach, FL (US);
Donald Bowers, Tampa, FL (US);
Key Safety Systems, Inc., Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Abstract
An inflator for inflating an airbag has a housing with a first housing portion defining a first chamber and a second housing portion defining a second chamber. A gas generant disposed in the first and second chambers. A barrier separates the first and second chambers. Each of the chambers has an ignition enhancer tube disposed therein with a portion of an ignition unit being located therein. Each of the ignition enhancer tubes has at least one outlet defined therein. Each ignition enhancer tube holding an ignition enhancer such that when the associated ignition unit ignites the ignition enhancer combusts and exits through said outlet and then reacts with the gas generant in the associated chamber.