Patent ID: 7147733

Claim:
In an ammonium perchlorate-containing gas generant composition that includes a non-azide, organic, nitrogen-containing fuel, the improvement comprising: the ammonium perchlorate being present with a mean particle size in excess of 200 microns, and the ammonium perchlorate-containing gas generant composition also containing a chlorine scavenger present in an amount effective to result in a gaseous effluent that is substantially free of hydrogen chloride when the gas generant is combusted, wherein at least about 98 weight percent of the chlorine scavenger is a copper-containing compound selected from the group consisting of basic copper nitrate, cupric oxide, copper diammine dinitrate-ammonium nitrate mixture wherein ammonium nitrate is present in the mixture in a range of about 3 to about 90 weight percent, copper diammine bitetrazole, a copper-nitrate complex resulting from reaction of 5-aminotetrazole with basic copper nitrate and combinations thereof.