Patent ID: 8342100

Claim:
A gas generator, comprising: a housing having a gas discharge port; a combustion chamber formed inside the housing; a disk-shaped gas generating agent stacked and loaded in the combustion chamber in an axial direction of the housing or a single tubular gas generating agent loaded in the combustion chamber aligned in the axial direction of the housing; an igniter disposed inside the combustion chamber and fixed to a bottom surface of the housing, the gas generating agent loaded to enclose the igniter, the igniter fixed with respect to the bottom surface of the housing by a fixing member, the fixing member including a fixing portion for the igniter and a plurality of elastic rod-like gas generating agent support portions that extend in the radial direction of the housing from the fixing portion, the gas generating agent support portions abutting against a surface of the gas generating agent opposing the bottom surface of the housing, and the gas generating agent being pressed and fixed between the gas generating agent support portions and a top surface of the housing.