Patent ID: 6926304
Filing Date: 2005-08-09
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A deflecting member of a gas generator for an air bag, which is a constituting member used in a gas generator for an air bag comprising, in a cylindrical housing with a gas discharge port, a gas generating means to generate an operating gas for inflating an air bag and a cylindrical coolant/filter means to cool and/or purify the operating gas in the housing, wherein a tube portion has a shape capable of being arranged to face an inner periphery of the cylindrical gas generator housing, and the tube portion is formed in a shape and/or a structure capable of shielding at least a gas discharge port formed in a circumferential wall of the gas-generator housing from the inside of the housing, and the deflecting member is formed to have a shape and/or a structure capable of preventing a combustion product generated due to a combustion of the gas generating means from being discharged out of the housing through the gas discharge port.