公开(公告)号：US4907819A

公开(公告)日：1990-03-13

申请号：US246065

申请日：1988-09-16

申请人： Jess Cuevas

发明人： Jess Cuevas

IPC分类号： B01J7/00 ,  B60R21/26 ,  B60R21/264

CPC分类号： B60R21/2644 ,  B01J7/00

摘要： A non-welded pyrotechnic gas-generating inflator apparatus which comprises: a domed diffuser member, open at one end; a closure plate member sealing the open end of the diffuser member, the members being mechanically sealed by rolling a peripheral lip portion of the diffuser member over the outer circumference edge of the closure plate member at an angle of about 180 degrees to a remaining lateral wall portion of the diffuser member, and inserting a locking ring member against a bottom surface of the closure member within the periphery of the rolled lip, the locking ring being configured to engage an inner terminal edge portion of the lip, thereby forming a sealed inflator housing; a sufficient amount of a combustible gas generant material within said housing to produce, upon the combustion thereof, a volume of a gaseous product sufficient to substantially inflate an automobile air bag within about 30-60 milliseconds; a combustion initiating device positioned within the housing adjacent the gas generant and a filter assembly for filtering the combustion product prior to its discharge from the inflator, the filter assembly circumferentially surrounding the gas generant within the housing. In fabricating the inflator, the filter assembly is simply lowered into position within the diffuser and the propellant is lowered into the filter cavity. Subsequently, the closure member is mated to the open end of the diffuser and the lip of the diffuser is rolled over the outer edge of the closure by a rotating mechanical head in the area where they overlap to form a seal therebetween.

公开(公告)号：US20050218632A1

公开(公告)日：2005-10-06

申请号：US10813400

申请日：2004-03-31

申请人： Jess Cuevas ,  Sanjeev Kulkarni

发明人： Jess Cuevas ,  Sanjeev Kulkarni

IPC分类号： B60R21/16 ,  B60R21/26 ,  B60R21/268 ,  B60R21/276 ,  B60R21/22

CPC分类号： B60R21/33 ,  B60R21/268 ,  B60R21/276

摘要： A Restorable Vehicle Occupant Safety System to replace present pyrotechnic airbag systems. The system is comprised of an air pressure storage vessel 21 that is fluidly connected to an air distribution manifold 36, electronic sensors that preclude an impending crash, valves which are sensor activated to inflate airbags for driver, passenger, knee bolster, side impact, and rollover units as well as seatbelt pre-tensioning units. The present system will safely deploy the airbags in a substantially safe increment of time before a crash condition and restore the airbags to their original position in the event the crash condition does not occur.

摘要翻译： 可再生车辆乘员安全系统，以取代目前的烟火气囊系统。 该系统包括流体连接到空气分配歧管36的空气压力存储容器21，防止即将发生的碰撞的电子传感器，被传感器激活的阀对驾驶员，乘客，膝垫，侧面碰撞的安全气囊充气，以及 翻转单元以及安全带预张紧单元。 本系统将在碰撞状态之前以安全的方式安全地安全地部署安全气囊，并且在发生碰撞状况的情况下将安全气囊恢复到原来的位置。

公开(公告)号：US5286054A

公开(公告)日：1994-02-15

申请号：US826015

申请日：1992-01-27

申请人： Jess Cuevas

发明人： Jess Cuevas

IPC分类号： B60R21/20 ,  B60R21/217 ,  B60R21/30

CPC分类号： B60R21/217 ,  B60R21/2171 ,  B60R21/30

摘要： A modularized aspirating/venting motor vehicle passenger passive restraint assembly. A first embodiment utilizes two separate inflator units lockingly engaged within a stamped mounting plate which, in turn, is installed within an outer base plate. Both plates comprise a lower depending skirt portion defining an aperture through a lower portion of the corresponding plate. These apertures are located in substantially vertical alignment when the mounting plate is seated within the base plate. An elongated conduit permits a reciprocal fluid flow between the interior of the module and the ambient atmosphere. A first end of the conduit is inserted through the corresponding apertures in the base plate and mounting plate to a location adjacent the inflator units and secured therein by magnaforming the overlapping skirt portions into a groove on the conduit's outer surface. A second end of the conduit extends through an inner structural wall of the vehicle to a location outside of the passenger compartment. A second embodiment of the invention utilizes a single linear, bilateral inflator device having first and second combustion chambers secured at opposite end thereof to a central T-shaped support. The lower leg of the support is grooved to facilitate sealing the inflator to the base plate by magnaforming the base plate skirt into the groove. No mounting plate is required. The elongated conduit is releasably attached to a terminal end of the lower support leg by a fitting and extends out of the vehicle passenger compartment to permit fluid communication with the ambient atmosphere.

摘要翻译： 模块化吸气/排气机动车辆乘客被动约束组件。 第一实施例利用两个单独的充气机单元，该单独的充气机单元锁定地接合在冲压的安装板内，安装板又安装在外部基板内。 两个板都包括一个下悬垂的裙部，其限定通过相应板的下部的孔。 当安装板位于基板内时，这些孔位于基本垂直的对准位置。 细长导管允许模块内部和环境气氛之间的往复流体流动。 导管的第一端通过基板和安装板中的相应的孔插入靠近充气机单元的位置，并通过将重叠的裙部大量成形为管道外表面上的凹槽而固定在其中。 导管的第二端延伸穿过车辆的内部结构壁到位于乘客舱外部的位置。 本发明的第二个实施例利用一个单一的线性双边充气机装置，其具有在其相对端固定在中心T形支撑件上的第一和第二燃烧室。 支撑件的小腿是开槽的，以便通过将基板裙部放大成凹槽来将充气器密封到基板。 不需要安装板。 细长导管通过配件可释放地附接到下支撑腿的终端，并延伸出车辆乘客舱以允许与环境大气的流体连通。

公开(公告)号：US5058921A

公开(公告)日：1991-10-22

申请号：US445231

申请日：1989-12-04

申请人： Jess Cuevas

发明人： Jess Cuevas

IPC分类号： B60R21/20 ,  B60R21/217 ,  B60R21/26 ,  B60R21/264 ,  B60R21/30

CPC分类号： B60R21/2171 ,  B60R21/2644 ,  B60R21/30 ,  B60R2021/2648

摘要： A linear bilateral inflator module in which the inflator component of the module has two opposed cylindrical combustion chambers mounted in a horizontal plane at either end of the inflator. These chambers are joined to and supported by a central T-shaped inflator housing containing an ignitor for initiating combustion of the propellant within the inflator. The lower leg of this central section is configured as a tubular extension which may optionally be joined to a separate conduit member adapted for permitting a reciprocal fluid flow into and out of the air bag through the inflator. The extension also serves as a point of attachment for an outer surrounding base plate assembly. A bead, located within the mouth portion of the air bag, is trapped between the inflator and the base plate during formation of the structural seal between these components such that the inflator is completely enclosed within the bag. The inflator is adapted to provide differing amounts of a gaseous combustion product from each of the combustion chambers by varying the amount or type of propellant stored therein. This arrangement permits the development within the air bag component of the module of two different inflation zones.

摘要翻译： 一种线性双边充气机模块，其中模块的充气机组件具有安装在充气机两端的水平面中的两个相对的圆柱形燃烧室。 这些室连接并由中心T形充气机壳体支撑，该中心T形充气机壳体包含用于在充气机内引发推进剂燃烧的点火器。 该中央部分的小腿构造成管状延伸部，其可任选地连接到适于允许往复流体通过充气机进入和离开气囊的单独管道部件。 延伸部还用作外围的基板组件的附接点。 在形成这些部件之间的结构密封件的过程中，位于气囊的嘴部内的小珠被捕获在充气机和基板之间，使得充气机完全封闭在袋内。 充气机适于通过改变存储在其中的推进剂的量或类型来提供来自每个燃烧室的不同量的气态燃烧产物。 这种布置允许在两个不同充气区域的组件的气囊部件内的发展。

公开(公告)号：US4865635A

公开(公告)日：1989-09-12

申请号：US233194

申请日：1988-08-17

申请人： Jess Cuevas

发明人： Jess Cuevas

IPC分类号： B01D39/20 ,  B01D46/00 ,  B01D46/24 ,  B60R21/26 ,  B60R21/264

CPC分类号： B60R21/2644 ,  B01D39/2068 ,  B01D46/0049 ,  B01D46/24 ,  B01D2271/027 ,  B01D2275/10 ,  B01D2275/305 ,  Y10T29/49803 ,  Y10T29/49917

摘要： A self-sealing annular filter component for operation within a housing portion of a pyrotechnic inflator device. The filter comprises: (a) first and second ring-shaped members configured to form an annular frame, at least one of the ring members being provided with at least one tab member formed integrally therewith and extending outwardly therefrom toward the other ring-shaped member to maintain a set spacing between the frame members, and (b) a plurality of filter layers supported upon the filter frame, each filter layer positioned so as to at least partially overlap a preceding underlying filter layer around the entire annular surface of the filter frame. The outer circumferential edge of the ring-shaped frame member is adapted to ensure circular line contact with an inner portion of the inflator housing. This causes the filter to be self-sealing against the housing as a result of outwardly directed hoop stresses produced by activation of the inflator and thus ensures that the gaseous combustion products produced as a result of the inflator firing do not bypass the filter and exit directly into an attached air bag.

公开(公告)号：US20050146121A1

公开(公告)日：2005-07-07

申请号：US11057487

申请日：2005-02-14

申请人： Douglas Campbell ,  Ahmad Al-Amin ,  Timothy Swann ,  Roy Van Wynsberghe ,  Jess Cuevas ,  Dean Esterberg ,  Bryan Shirk

发明人： Douglas Campbell ,  Ahmad Al-Amin ,  Timothy Swann ,  Roy Van Wynsberghe ,  Jess Cuevas ,  Dean Esterberg ,  Bryan Shirk

IPC分类号： B60R21/00 ,  B60R21/16 ,  B60R21/268 ,  B60R21/26

CPC分类号： B60R21/268 ,  B60R21/232 ,  B60R2021/0018 ,  B60R2021/26058 ,  B60R2021/26094 ,  B60R2021/2685 ,  Y10T137/1692 ,  Y10T137/1737

摘要： An inflator (22) for providing inflation fluid () to inflate an inflatable vehicle occupant protection device (14) includes a container (30) storing the inflation fluid under pressure. The container (30) has an outlet passage (80) through which the inflation fluid flows from the container. A rupturable closure member (92) fixed to the container (30) blocks flow of inflation fluid through the passage (80). A support (100) for the rupturable closure member (92) defines a chamber (110) adjacent the rupturable closure member (92). The rupturable closure member (92) has a first portion (122) deformed into the chamber (110) by the pressure of the inflation fluid and a second ring-shaped portion (124) encircling the first portion (122). An initiator (98) ruptures the closure member (92) when actuated by shearing the first portion (122) from the second portion (124).

摘要翻译： 用于提供充气流体（））以使充气车辆乘员保护装置（14）充气的充气器（22）包括容纳充气流体的压力下的容器（30）。 容器（30）具有出口通道（80），膨胀流体通过该出口通道从容器流出。 固定到容器（30）上的可破裂的封闭构件（92）阻挡通过通道（80）的充气流体的流动。 用于可破坏的封闭构件（92）的支撑件（100）限定了邻近可破坏闭合构件（92）的腔室（110）。 可破裂的封闭构件（92）具有通过膨胀流体的压力变形到腔室（110）中的第一部分（122）和环绕第一部分（122）的第二环形部分（124）。 当通过从第二部分（124）剪切第一部分（122）致动时，引发器（98）破坏封闭构件（92）。

公开(公告)号：USRE33938E

公开(公告)日：1992-05-26

申请号：US601252

申请日：1990-10-19

申请人： Jess Cuevas

发明人： Jess Cuevas

IPC分类号： B60R21/20 ,  B60R21/203 ,  B60R21/30

CPC分类号： B60R21/2032 ,  B60R21/30

摘要： A motor vehicle modularized airbag assembly adapted for facilitating an aspirating flow of ambient atmosphere through the module and into the air bag to facilitate the inflation thereof and thereafter so as to vent the contents into the surrounding atmosphere. The assembly comprises a pyrotechnic inflator device; and inflatable air cushion in contact relation thereto; a retainer member for facilitating a locking engagement between the air cushion and the inflator and a mounting plate comprising a plurality of stepped levels for receiving the inflator, the air cushion and the retainer member in operative association, as well as a plurality of projecting members formed integral with a lower surface thereof to facilitate the aspirating and venting effect. The assembly additionally comprises an elongated conduit extending rearwardly from the mounting plate, through the vehicle's steering column at least to an aperture in the firewall thereof and optionally beyond, so as to direct the contents of the air bag out of the vehicle's passenger compartment upon deflation of the bag.

公开(公告)号：US4913461A

公开(公告)日：1990-04-03

申请号：US290544

申请日：1988-12-27

申请人： Jess Cuevas

发明人： Jess Cuevas

IPC分类号： B60R21/26 ,  B60R21/20 ,  B60R21/217

CPC分类号： B60R21/217

摘要： An airbag module comprising a pyrotechnic inflator device; an inflatable air cushion operatively associated therewith; a retainer for lockingly engaging the air cushion to the inflator and a mounting plate configured and adapted for securing the inflator, the air cushion and the retainer in operative association. A variety of inflator embodiments may be incorporated into the module assembly but each requires, along at least a portion of the housing thereof, a rounded arcuate surface configured for engagement with the retainer upon the formation of a structural seal between the mounting plate and the retainer. This structural seal is created by magnaforming a portion of the mounting plate into a corresponding open groove upon the retainer. The module is thus fabricated by positioning the inflator upon the mounting plate; lockingly engaging the air cushion and the retainer; lowering the retainer/cushion assembly over the inflator and magnaforming the wall of the mounting plate into the groove on the surface of the retainer.

公开(公告)号：US4877264A

公开(公告)日：1989-10-31

申请号：US290495

申请日：1988-12-27

申请人： Jess Cuevas

发明人： Jess Cuevas

IPC分类号： B60R21/16 ,  B60R21/20 ,  B60R21/203 ,  B60R21/30

CPC分类号： B60R21/2032 ,  B60R21/30

摘要： A motor vehicle modularized airbag assembly adapted for facilitating an aspirating flow of ambient atmosphere through the module and into the air bag to facilitate the inflation thereof and thereafter so as to vent the contents into the surrounding atmosphere. The assembly comprises a pyrotechnic inflator device; an inflatable air cushion in contact relation thereto; a retainer member for facilitating a locking engagement between the air cushion and the inflator and a mounting plate comprising a plurality of stepped levels for receiving the inflator, the air cushion and the retainer member in operative association, as well as a plurality of projecting members formed integral with a lower surface thereof to facilitate the aspirating and venting effect. The assembly additionally comprises an elongated conduit extending rearwardly from the mounting plate, through the vehicle's steering column at least to an aperture in the firewall thereof and optionally beyond, so as to direct the contents of the air bag out of the vehicle's passenger compartment upon deflation of the bag.

公开(公告)号：US5335940A

公开(公告)日：1994-08-09

申请号：US129487

申请日：1993-09-29

申请人： Jess Cuevas

发明人： Jess Cuevas

IPC分类号： B60R21/26 ,  B60R21/261 ,  B60R21/272

CPC分类号： B60R21/272 ,  B60R21/26 ,  B60R21/261

摘要： An apparatus 10 for inflating a vehicle occupant restraint such as an air bag includes a gas source 14 having an axis 50 and a quantity of gas 12 therein. An outlet 30 in the gas source establishes axial flow of gas from the gas source. A flow control member 40 disposed in the path of gas flow establishes radial and circumferential flow of gas to remove particles from the flowing gas by centrifugal force. The a flow control member includes at least one circumferentially extending passage 72 for producing centrifugal force to remove particulate matter from gas flowing in the passage.

摘要翻译： 用于对诸如安全气囊的车辆乘员约束器进行充气的装置10包括其中具有轴线50和一定量的气体12的气体源14。 气源中的出口30形成来自气源的气体的轴向流动。 设置在气流路径中的流量控制构件40形成气体的径向和周向流动，以通过离心力从流动气体中除去颗粒。 流量控制构件包括至少一个沿周向延伸的通道72，用于产生离心力以从通道中流动的气体中除去颗粒物质。