US Patent Issued to ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY on Sept. 16 for "Micro gas generator and method for producing a micro gas generator" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,477, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH (Alfdorf, Germany).

"Micro gas generator and method for producing a micro gas generator" was invented by Simon Schreiber (Mutlangen, Germany) and Daniel Bock-Kauer (Elchingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention describes a micro gas generator (10) for a vehicle safety system comprising a plastic housing part (20) and a metallic insert (22), wherein the plastic material forming the housing part (20) is injection-molded around the insert (22) and, thus, the latter is positively connected to the housing part (20), and wherein a seat (24) in which an i...