Electrically controlled variable force deployment airbag and inflation

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9457761
APP PUB NO 20150343988A1
SERIAL NO

14289513

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The rate of combustion of an electrically operated propellant having self-sustaining threshold of at least 1,000 psi is controlled to produce chamber pressures that are sufficient to produce a desired pressure profile in the airbag to accommodate a range of human factors and crash conditions yet never exceeding the self-sustaining threshold. The combustion of the propellant is extinguished to control the total pressure impulse delivered to the airbag. Propellants formed with an ionic perchlorate-based oxidizer have demonstrated thresholds in excess of 1,500 psi and higher.

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RAYTHEON COMPANY870 WINTER STREET WALTHAM MA 02451

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Deppert, Thomas M Gilbert, US 28 298
Langhenry, Mark T Tucson, US 19 73
Summers, Matt H Marana, US 21 88
Villarreal, James K Denver, US 14 78

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