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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7354287 | Shorting connector An electrical connector includes a housing that may form a first contact channel and a second contact channel. A first contact having a longitudinal axis may be disposed within the first contact channel, and a second contact may be disposed within the second contact... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7303441 | Electrical connector contact An electrical connector assembly including a housing, electrical contact terminals, a hood and a filter member. The housing is sized and shaped to be plugged into an electrical connector socket of an initiator of a gas generator. A first one of the terminals has a w... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7268445 | Vehicular occupant protection device An airbag device includes a squib, an ignition circuit, and a noise protection circuit. The noise protection circuit includes two zener diodes whose cathodes are facing each other and connected with each other. Further, the noise protection circuit is connected in p... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7241175 | Electrical connector contact An electrical connector assembly including a housing, electrical contact terminals, a hood and a filter member. The housing is sized and shaped to be plugged into an electrical connector socket of an initiator of a gas generator. A first one of the terminals has a w... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7207253 | Parachute line cutting device The present invention is to improve the mechanical characteristics of a pyrotechnical parachute line cutting device. By enforcing the mechanical traction on the electrical connection wire by Kevlar reinforcement cords. The flexible electrical wire will be connected ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7194959 | Precision pyrotechnic display system and method having increased safety and timing accuracy A system and method are disclosed for controlling the launch and burst of pyrotechnic projectiles in a pyrotechnic, or “fireworks”, display. ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7168737 | Integrated circuit for air bag system An integrated circuit for an air bag system is used in an air bag system having an ECU and a module case connected to the ECU and accommodating a gas generator and an air bag. In the air bag system, two bus lines passing through the ECU are provided to supply curren... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7162958 | Distributed charge inflator system An inflator includes a distributed charge to be distributed within an inflatable component of an inflatable system and a housing. The housing includes a combustion chamber and a gas storage chamber. The combustion chamber includes an initiator and a gas propellant. ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161790 | Ignition device for bus connection A plurality of the ignition devices are connected to an ignition control system via a common bus. The ignition devices are selectively operable for actuating a plurality of airbag devices by means of electrical energy and an electrical signal supplied from the ignit... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7127806 | Method for marking coaxial cable jumper assembly including plated outer assembly A jumper coaxial cable assembly includes a jumper coaxial cable and at least one solder-type connector secured thereto. The cable may include an outer conductor, which, in turn, includes aluminum with a tin layer thereon. The tin layer permits an aluminum outer cond... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7121892 | Electrical connector contact An electrical connector assembly including a housing, electrical contact terminals, a hood and a filter member. The housing is sized and shaped to be plugged into an electrical connector socket of an initiator of a gas generator. A first one of the terminals has a w... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7089861 | Heating element for igniting pyrotechnic charge A heating element for the ignition of a pyrotechnic charge, e.g. for firing an air bag, has increased stability with respect to transient pulses and electrostatic discharge as a result of a selection of this mass, specific resistance and specific heat capacity. In p... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7086319 | Device to provide an electrical connection between a recoiling mass of a weapon and a fixed cradle A device providing an electrical connection between the recoiling mass of a weapon and a fixed cradle. The device incorporates at least one connector formed of a plug and socket, one of which is integral with the cradle and the other with the recoiling mass, the ele... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7059250 | Melted metal dispersal warhead Molten droplets of a metal fuel, such as aluminum, are dispersed into air or water for a reaction releasing energy for military or other purposes. In one warhead embodiment, a cylinder of solid metal is disposed within a ceramic heat insulator; heaters of thermite-l... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7059312 | Electric ignition unit for igniting propellants An ignition unit for igniting propellants having at least one electrically conductive pin with a pin holder comprising a metal ring which encloses the pin by leaving an annular cavity with an insulating filing in the annular cavity. An electrically conductive bridge... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7047884 | Pyrotechnic initiator having output can with encapsulation material retention feature A pyrotechnic initiator is provided with an encapsulation material retention feature on the output can rather than on the header assembly. For example, the bottom of the output can of the pyrotechnic initiator may be swaged over the bottom of the header assembly and... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7021218 | Safety and performance enhancement circuit for primary explosive detonators A safety and performance enhancement arrangement for primary explosive detonators. This arrangement involves a circuit containing an energy storage capacitor and preset self-trigger to protect the primary explosive detonator from electrostatic discharge (ESD). The c... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7004071 | Initiator with an internal sleeve retaining a pyrotechnic charge and methods of making same A pyrotechnic initiator having an internal sleeve that facilitates the loading and durable retention of a pyrotechnic charge in place on the header surface within the initiator. The sleeve beneficially retains the charge either in conjunction with the upper interior... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6966261 | Fuze explosive ordnance disposal circuit The present invention comprises an electronic Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) circuit which is desirably used with fused explosive weapons, such as projectiles having a nominal mission time. After expiration of the mission time, if the explosive has not detonated,... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6925938 | Electro-explosive device with laminate bridge A semiconductor bridge (SCB) device. In one embodiment, the SCB device includes a laminate layer on top of an insulating material, wherein the laminate layer comprises a series of layers of at least two reactive materials, and wherein the laminate layer comprises tw... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6923122 | Energetic material initiation device utilizing exploding foil initiated ignition system with secondary explosive material A device and method that employs a detonation event as an energy source for producing a pyrotechnic output. The device includes an initiation charge that is selectively detonated by an exploding foil initiator. Byproducts from the detonation event are attenuated by ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6907827 | Pyrotechnic initiator having output can with encapsulation material retention feature A pyrotechnic initiator is provided with an encapsulation material retention feature on the output can, such as a swaged end or anchors. ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6904846 | Ignition device for a safety system The invention relates to a safety system for an ignition device (7), particularly a safety system for an ignition device (7) to activate an airbag, a belt tightener or a similar type safety device for use in vehicles. The ignition device can be activat... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6857369 | Precision pyrotechnic display system and method having increased safety and timing accuracy A system and method are disclosed for controlling the launch and burst of pyrotechnic projectiles in a pyrotechnic, or “fireworks”, display. ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6739264 | Low cost ignition device for gas generators An initiator has a circuit board with two spaced copper traces and a bridge resistor of Nichrome® or tantalum nitride at one end, and wire leads or pins joining the wire traces at the other end. A zener diode is placed between the wire leads and a bridge resistor. ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6732656 | High voltage tolerant explosive initiation A fiber-optically-and-pneumatically-controlled firing set for explosive-bridgewire detonators. The firing set consists of a detonation-controlling module and a battery-operated firing module that are interconnected by fiber-optic signal conductors and a pneumatic co... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6732655 | Ignition device for restraint means in a vehicle A firing device, in which electrostatic chargings do not lead to an unintentional triggering of the firing element, is composed of a module housing in which a firing element and a circuit means arrangement are arranged, and which has terminal posts that, on the one ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6659011 | Device for triggering an airbag A device for triggering an airbag having a controller, a trigger, electric lines between the controlled device and the trigger and a coil for attenuating high-frequency interference currents connected to the electric lines which in turn induces interferen... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6622627 | Actuator apparatus Actuator apparatus comprising an actuator including an at least partially hollow housing, a cap element removably mountable on the actuator, and a coil of electrical wire disposed inside the housing, a first portion of the coil being arranged for electric... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6588342 | Frequency addressable ignitor control device A frequency addressable ignitor control device utilizes electronic bandpass filters tuned to a unique center frequency and bandwidth for each ignitor. Energy generated by the system's controller comprises one or more narrow pulses whose center frequency c... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6564715 | Frequency addressable ignitor control device A frequency addressable ignitor control device utilizes electronic bandpass filters tuned to a unique center frequency and bandwidth for each ignitor. Energy generated by the system's controller comprises one or more narrow pulses whose center frequency c... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6553910 | Hermatically-sealed electrically-absorptive low-pass radio frequency filters and electro-magnetically lossy ceramic materials for said filters An electromagnetically lossy liquid- or gas-tight fusion seal for use as a low pass radio frequency signal filter constructed as a matrix of glass binder and ferrimagnetic and/or ferroelectric filler. Metal cased electrical filters are made by reflowing t... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6539875 | Electro-pyrotechnic initiator built around a complete printed circuit An electro-pyrotechnic initiator suitable for use in igniting a pyrotechnic generator of gas for inflating an air bag, said initiator being connected to an electric cable comprising two conductive wires, said initiator comprising: (i) a thermosensitive ch... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6490977 | Precision pyrotechnic display system and method having increased safety and timing accuracy A system and method are disclosed for controlling the launch and burst of pyrotechnic projectiles in a pyrotechnic, or "fireworks", display.... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6477957 | Ignition device for a safety system An ignition device for a safety system such as an air bag or seat belt tightener for a motor vehicle having an ignition element and associated EMC protection means. The EMC protection means may comprise an EMC suppression comprising a ferrite core, which ... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6476464 | Low resistance hermetic lead structure The invention provides a lead structure having a lead of low resistance material disposed within a surrounding sleeve or collar of low expansion material which is bonded at one end to the lead. The sleeve or collar is bonded on its outer surface to an ins... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6422145 | Controlled electromagnetic induction detonation system for initiation of a detonatable material The controlled electromagnetic induction detonation system for initiation of a detonatable material system includes an automated radio charge (ARCH) module connectable to an electric detonator, a transducer module for providing operational power by electr... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6418853 | Electropyrotechnic igniter with integrated electronics The electropyrotechnic igniter (1) comprises a body divided into a downstream chamber and an upstream chamber by a discoid metal piece (8), the downstream chamber containing a resistive heating element (11), a pyrotechnic initiating composition (12) and a... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6408758 | Photoetched-filament pyrotechnic initiator protected against electrostatic discharges The present invention relates to the field of electropyrotechnic initiators comprising a thick-film multifoil circuit. The electrical circuit is photoetched on an insulating support (16). It consists of a resistive first foil having a central part (17) of cons... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6389972 | Electro-pyrotechnic initiator built around a complete printed circuit The invention relates to an initiator for a pyrotechnic gas generator intended for motor vehicle safety. The initiator (2) is built from a circuit support (10) on which conductive strips are printed which include electromagnetic protection and the ends of... | 05/21/2002 |
