GAS GENERATOR

• Main Authors: UEDA SHINYA, TAKAYANAGI KAZUSHIGE, IZAKI NAOKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.11.2011
• Subjects: CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inexpensively-and-easily-manufacturable lightweight gas generator capable of suitably controlling transmission of flame energy by a transfer charge without causing dispersion in an output characteristic.SOLUTION: This gas generator 1A includes: a short cylindrical housing with both ends closed, constituted of an initiator shell 10 and a closure shell 20; an igniter 30 attached to the initiator shell 10; and an enhancer cup 40 constituted of a single bottomed cylindrical member, with a transfer charge 34 ignited by the igniter 30 housed therein. The enhancer cup 40 includes, in a sidewall section 42 thereof: a thin weak part 42a that is ruptured or melted by the combustion of the transfer charge 34 associated with the operation of the igniter 30; and a thick non-weak part 42b that remains without being ruptured or melted by the combustion of the transfer charge 34 associated with the operation of the igniter 30.