ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,991, issued on April 7, was assigned to DAICEL Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Gas generator" was invented by Akira Fukushima (Tokyo), Shinya Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Narumi Mizuta (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas generator includes: an ignition device including an igniter, an igniter holding portion having a tubular shape and being configured to hold the igniter and a fixing portion made of resin and being configured to fix the igniter to the igniter holding portion; and a case having a bottomed tubular shape and being configured to accommodate a gas generating agent which combusts by actuation of the ignition device, the case being m...