ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,974, issued on July 29, was assigned to ZF AIRBAG GERMANY GMBH (Aschau am Inn, Germany).
"Gas generator" was invented by Bernhard Mehnert (Ebersberg, Germany), Sebastian Bierwirth (Rechtmehring, Germany), Karl Englbrecht (Erharting, Germany), Johannes Ebner (Muhldorf a. Inn, Germany) and Vadim Kolbin (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas generator (10) comprises a housing (12) in which a conical combustion chamber screen (52) terminates the combustion chamber (44). On the front side, the combustion chamber screen (52) is closed by an end cap (54) to which a filter element (60) is connected which has one or more axially project...