US Patent Issued to DAICEL on Oct. 20 for "Gas generator and airbag module assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,085, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to DAICEL Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Gas generator and airbag module assembly" was invented by Shunji Nakai (Tokyo) and Nobuyuki Katsuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas generator includes a gas generating agent that generates gas by combustion, a housing made of metal and accommodating the gas generating agent therein, the housing having a gas discharge port formed therein, through which the gas is emitted to an exterior of the housing, an ignition device configured to ignite the gas generating agent by actuation; and a temperature rise suppressing member provided in contact with an outer ...