The invention relates to an inflator (10), especially for a vehicle safety system, comprising a combustion chamber (20) containing a pyrotechnical solid propellant bed (21). In accordance with the invention, an igniting mixture (25) is located in the combustion chamber (20), wherein a filler element (30, 30) is arranged to be movable between the igniting mixture (25) and the solid propellant bed (21) in the idle state of the inflator (10).

The present invention provides an ignition device including an igniter fixed to an igniter collar, a first cup member filled with a gas generating component therein, and a second cup member, the first cup member covering the igniter collar so as to enclose a portion including an ignition portion of the igniter, the second cup member covering the igniter collar so as to enclose the first cup member, a gap being formed between an outer surface of the first cup member and an inner surface of the second cup member to function as a heat insulating layer, the first cup member having a first opening means, and the second cup member having a second opening means, and at least one of the first opening means and the second opening means being closed before actuation and being opened only when gas is generated from the gas generating component.

The present invention provides a gas generator including a combustion chamber cup which is disposed in the housing provided with a gas discharge port and includes a combination of a cup member and a cylindrical member, a combustion chamber being separated by the combustion chamber cup into an inner combustion chamber and an outer combustion chamber, the cup member having, in a circumferential wall surface thereof, a dropout-preventing slit formed in an axial direction from a first end on the side of a bottom surface to a second end on the side of an opening and a plurality of through holes formed in a circumferential direction, the cylindrical member having a first end opening fixed to a bottom plate of the housing and a protrusion protruding radially outward in a circumferential wall surface thereof, the cup member covering a second end opening of the cylindrical member, and the bottom surface of the cup member being positioned on the side of a top plate of the housing, the plurality of the through holes being closed when the protrusion of the cylindrical member is fitted at the first end of the dropout-preventing slit, at the time of actuation, the plurality of the through holes of the cup member being opened when the cup member moves until the protrusion, which has located at the first end of the dropout-preventing slit, abuts against the second end.

A gas generating system includes a first housing and a second housing contained within the first housing and engaging the first housing in an interference fit.

A gas generator includes a partition portion, a cylindrical portion, and a separation wall portion which divide a space in a housing into a first combustion chamber, a second combustion chamber, a gas passage chamber, and a gas emission chamber. The first combustion chamber includes a space inside the cylindrical portion on a side of an igniter relative to the separation wall portion, and the second combustion chamber includes the space inside the cylindrical portion on a side of the partition portion relative to the separation wall portion. The gas passage chamber includes a space outside the cylindrical portion which faces a circumferential wall portion of the housing, and the gas emission chamber includes a space on a side of a gas discharge opening relative to the partition portion. At least some of a gas generated in the first combustion chamber at the time of activation of the gas generator is emitted to the outside sequentially through the gas passage chamber, the second combustion chamber, and the gas emission chamber.

A gas generator includes, inside a housing, an ignition device chamber accommodating a transfer charge and an igniter in which an igniter main body is surrounded by an igniter collar. The ignition device chamber is formed such that an inner circumferential wall surface on an opening side of an ignition device chamber cup, which is charged with the transfer charge, is press-fitted to and in close contact with an outer circumferential wall surface of the igniter collar of the igniter. The ratio (Vh2/Vh1) of an average Vickers hardness (Vh1) of the igniter collar, which is measured by a method described in Examples, and an average Vickers hardness (Vh2) of the ignition device chamber cup, which is measured by a method described in Examples, is within a range of 0.25 to 0.65.

An airbag device includes an airbag that is supplied with gas during a vehicle collision, and that inflates and deploys from a rear side of a vehicle seat toward a front side via an upper side thereof. In an inflated and deployed state the airbag includes a pair of front-rear chambers extending in a front-rear direction via left and right sides of the head of a passenger, and an airbag body in communication with the pair of front-rear chambers, that is disposed at a front side of the passenger between the pair of front-rear chambers, and that is compression deformed in a state supported by the pair of front-rear chambers during restraint of the passenger. The airbag is configured such that entry of at least the head of the passenger into gaps between the front-rear chambers and the airbag body is suppressed during a latter half of restraining the passenger.

The present invention provides a gas generator including a combustion chamber cup which is disposed in the housing provided with a gas discharge port and includes a combination of a cup member and a cylindrical member, a combustion chamber being separated by the combustion chamber cup into an inner combustion chamber and an outer combustion chamber, the cup member having, in a circumferential wall surface thereof, a dropout-preventing slit formed in an axial direction from a first end on the side of a bottom surface to a second end on the side of an opening and a plurality of through holes formed in a circumferential direction, the cylindrical member having a first end opening fixed to a bottom plate of the housing and a protrusion protruding radially outward in a circumferential wall surface thereof, the cup member covering a second end opening of the cylindrical member, and the bottom surface of the cup member being positioned on the side of a top plate of the housing, the plurality of the through holes being closed when the protrusion of the cylindrical member is fitted at the first end of the dropout-preventing slit, at the time of actuation, the plurality of the through holes of the cup member being opened when the cup member moves until the protrusion, which has located at the first end of the dropout-preventing slit, abuts against the second end.

The invention relates to a hybrid inflator (10) includes at least one combustion chamber (15) in which propellant charge is arranged and which has a discharge end (20), the propellant charge being formed of at least one propellant element (26), at least one igniting unit (12) by which the propellant charge can be ignited. The hybrid inflator (10) also includes at least one bursting element (14, 14, 14) which in the inactivated state of the hybrid inflator (10) delimits the combustion chamber (15) against a gas supply chamber (16) at the discharge end (20). The bursting element (14, 14, 14) and a restraint element (18, 18, 18) maintain the propellant charge in its position and/or the bursting element (14, 14, 14) and the propellant charge delimit a shock gas volume (SGV), wherein in the activated state of the hybrid inflator (10) the shock gas volume (SGV) acts on the bursting element (14, 14, 14) like a gas pressure spring.

A dual-stage hybrid inflator and triggering a method thereof are provided. The dual-stage hybrid inflator includes a main casing, a central pipe, and a disc set, a first propellant chamber assembly, a second propellant chamber assembly, a pressurized gas, a first igniter assembly, a second igniter assembly and an exhaust hood. The main casing includes a bottom housing and an upper housing. The central pipe is fixed with the bottom housing and passed through the upper housing. A convective hole is disposed on the central pipe. The disc set, which is used to prevent the gas escaping from the main casing, is disposed on the top of the central pipe. The doublet propellant chamber, which is filled with different dosage of propellant, is initiated by the igniters disposed thereon in order to generate various degrees of gas depended on various degrees of collision.