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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2014
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Kiyosu-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Joji Aoyama, Kiyosu, JP;
TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., Aichi-pref., JP;
Abstract
An actuator includes a gas generator that generates an actuating gas when actuated, a housing section that houses the gas generator and a pressing section that is deployable with an actuating gas in such a fashion as to move forward relative to the housing section. The pressing section and the housing section are slidable against each other. Either one out of sliding portions of the pressing section and housing section serves as an inner section that is located closer to a central axis of the pressing section than the other whereas the other out of the sliding portions of the pressing section and housing section serves as an outer section that surrounds the inner section. The gas generator is located closer to the central axis than the sliding portion of the pressing section and partially overlaps with a part of the pressing section in an inactive state.