Patents Examined by Ruth Ian
  • Patent number: 6899351
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gas generator for expanding and inflating a driver's seat airbag. The gas generator comprises two ignitor device 8, 9 for burning gas generants 7 packed in combustion chambers 3, 4, and enhancer device 10, 11 for allowing the flames from the ignitor device 8, 9 to be propagated circumferentially and radially of a housing 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki-Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Saso, Fujio Tanabe, Koji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6845994
    Abstract: A stabilizer bar assembly for an automotive vehicle includes a stabilizer bar, a bushing mounted to the stabilizer bar that has a first stiffness in a first radial plane, and a second stiffness in a second radial plane approximately perpendicular to the first radial plane, a bushing retainer in mechanically compressive engagement with the bushing such that the bushing is in frictional engagement with the stabilizer bar, thereby preventing relative movement of the bushing and the stabilizer bar, and a mounting bracket adapted to connect the stabilizer bar to the automotive vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Haimian Cai, Xi Lin, Lakshmana Gummadi