Patent ID: 8231747

Claim:
An inflator assembly comprising: an inflator body forming a chamber wherein a quantity of a gas generating solid reacts to form gas, a quantity of gas treatment material to treat the formed gas to form a treated gas and at least one assembly exit opening to permit the treated gas to exit the inflator assembly, wherein the gas generating solid has a flame temperature of no more than 1670 K and comprises: at least one of an organic fuel, a transition metal salt of said organic fuel and a transition metal nitrate complex of said organic fuel, wherein said organic fuel comprises at least the elements carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, includes at least one functional group selected from the list of amide, imine, hydroxyl and carboxylic acids and has an oxygen-to-carbon mole ratio of at least 0.5 and an exothermic heat of formation of no less than −400 KJ/mole; the at least one organic fuel, transition metal salt of said organic fuel and transition metal nitrate complex of said organic fuel present in a relative amount of between about 5 and about 50 composition weight percent; between about 10 and about 30 composition weight percent co-fuel; between about 25 and about 70 composition weight percent of basic metal nitrate oxidizer, and between 0 and about 15 composition weight percent metal oxide coolant, wherein the organic fuel is free of nitro and cyano functional groups.