Abstract: The present invention relates to a refrigerator (1) comprising at least one fresh food or freezing compartment (2) wherein foodstuffs to be cooled and frozen are placed, a storage compartment (3) disposed in the compartment (2), wherein the foodstuffs are placed for being stored without being spoiled, a fan (4) that is situated in the storage compartment (3), and a motor (5) that is situated outside the storage compartment (3) and that moves the fan (4) by a contactless magnetic coupling (8).

Abstract: A fluid discharge device includes a discharge tube, an outer tube and at least one baffle. The discharge tube has a discharge port. The discharge tube has an end surface adjacent to the discharge port. The outer tube is sleeved outside the discharge tube. The outer tube has at least one passage. The passage is configured to flow a clean dry air. The passage has an outlet. The baffle is disposed outside the outlet. When the clean dry air passes through the outlet, at least part of the clean dry air is blocked by the baffle and is directed to the end surface of the discharge tube.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a refrigerator door frame apparatus and method. In one embodiment, a refrigerator door frame: a first side section forming a first side of the door frame; a second side section forming a second side of the door frame; a third side section forming a third side of the door frame, the third side section integrally coupled to the first side section and the second side section; and a fourth side section forming a fourth side of the door frame; the fourth side section integrally coupled to the first side section and the second side section; wherein the first side section, the second side section, the third side section, and the fourth side section are integrally formed with one another, and one or more ribs are formed on one or more of the first side section, the second side section, the third side section, and the fourth side section.

Abstract: Disclosed is a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a cabinet (10) configured to define a first storage region (2) in which food is stored, a door (20) configured to open or close the first storage region, a gasket (26) provided at the door to seal the first storage region, a first hinge (40) located at the outside of a sealing region defined by the gasket, one side of the first hinge being fixed to the cabinet and the other side of the first hinge being rotatably connected to the door and a container (100) configured to define a second storage region, the container being received in the first storage region. A second hinge (200) is located inside the sealing region, one side of the second hinge being fixed to the container and the other side of the second hinge being rotatably connected to the door. A guide unit (12) is configured to protrude into the first storage region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a refrigerator (1) comprising a fresh food compartment (2) wherein foodstuffs to be cooled are placed, a freezing compartment (3) wherein foodstuffs to be frozen are placed, a cabinet (4) disposed into the freezing compartment (3), and a lid (5) that is situated on the front side of the cabinet (4) and that has an open position wherein access into the cabinet (4) is provided and a closed position whereto the lid (5) is brought by being rotated from the open position, wherein the front side of the cabinet (4) is closed and the air inside the cabinet (4) is allowed to be at least partially discharged.

Abstract: A storage bin may include a container portion and a two-piece lid mechanism. The two-piece lid mechanism has a front lid portion configured to cover the front part of the container portion and a rear lid portion configured to cover the rear area of the container portion. When the front lid portion is opened, the rear lid portion is configured to slide along the top surface of the front lid portion while the front lid portion is configured to rotatably fit underneath the rear lid portion in such a way that when the front lid portion and the rear lid portion are completely opened, the lid portions do not extend above the top plane surface of the two-piece lid mechanism. The storage bin may be mounted within a recess in the inner wall of a refrigerator door.

Abstract: An example shelf support structure integral to a refrigerator or freezer liner includes a first feature defined in a liner and extending inward from the liner, the first feature having a first portion at a first height, and a second portion at a second height different from the first height; and a second feature defined in the liner and extending inward from the liner, the second feature spaced-apart from the first feature along a front to back direction and together with the first feature providing support for a shelf, the second feature having a third portion at a third height and a fourth portion at a fourth height different from the third height.

Abstract: A refrigerator equipped with a water tank that is easily accessible to a user and a method of using the same. A water dispenser is installed on the front side of a refrigerator. A water tank coupled to the water dispenser is detachably installed on a lower inner inside of a refrigerator door such that a user can conveniently observe the state of the water tank and access the water tank for maintenance and refill.

Abstract: A refrigerator equipped with a water tank that is easily accessible to a user and a method of using the same. A water dispenser is installed on the front side of a refrigerator. A water tank coupled to the water dispenser is detachably installed on a lower inner inside of a refrigerator door such that a user can conveniently observe the state of the water tank and access the water tank for maintenance and refill thereof.

Abstract: A refrigerator or liquid dispensing appliance adapted for receiving, storing, managing, processing and dispensing a liquid enhancement component for preparation of a finished beverage is disclosed. Delivery, processing and management of the liquid enhancement component includes loading a solid liquid enhancement component at a product interface, and managing the transfer of the liquid enhancement component through various systems of the invention including processing to provide a processed liquid enhancement component for discharging for preparing a finished beverage.

Abstract: According to an embodiment for a refrigerator, a plurality of touch parts may be manipulated to enter into a special mode, thereby preventing the refrigerator from malfunctioning. The touch sensitivity adjustment of the refrigerator due to the touch manipulation of the refrigerator may be visualized.

Abstract: A beverage cooling device is provided for keeping beverages cool for a prolonged period of time. The beverage cooling device includes a cylindrical container having a closed lower end, an open upper end, and a hollow interior volume. The container includes an inner layer and an outer layer. A refrigerant is disposed between the inner layer and the outer layer. The refrigerant layer is adapted to cool a beverage held within the interior volume of the container.

Abstract: Apparatus for compressing gaseous refrigerant for use in a refrigeration circuit of a liquefaction plant comprises a refrigeration circuit (1) and two compressors (10, 20) that are functionally connected to the refrigeration circuit. One of the compressors is provided with a double suction configuration, and the outlets and the inlets of the first and second compressors are connected at least partly in a mutually parallel flow configuration such that the refrigerant flow that leaves the refrigeration circuit from a plurality of outlets thereof is distributed between the two compressors before joining at the inlet of the refrigeration circuit.

Abstract: In a process for the production of carbon dioxide and hydrogen from a gas flow comprising at least hydrogen, at least one sulfur-comprising component and carbon dioxide originating from a Claus unit fed with a gas comprising at least 50 mol % of oxygen, the gas flow is compressed and dried in order to produce a compressed and dried gas flow and the compressed and dried gas flow is separated at a subambient temperature in order to produce at least a fluid enriched in carbon dioxide with respect to the compressed and dried gas flow and at least a fluid enriched in hydrogen with respect to the compressed and dried gas flow.

Abstract: Refining assemblies and methods for refining rich natural gas containing a first methane gas and other hydrocarbons that are heavier than methane gas are disclosed. In some embodiments, the assemblies may include a methane-producing assembly configured to receive at least one liquid-containing feed stream that includes water and rich natural gas and to produce an output stream therefrom by (a) converting at least a substantial portion of the other hydrocarbons of the rich natural gas with the water to a second methane gas, a lesser portion of the water, and other gases, and (b) allowing at least a substantial portion of the first methane gas from the rich natural gas to pass through the methane-producing assembly unconverted. The assemblies may additionally include a purification assembly configured to receive the output stream and to produce a methane-rich stream therefrom having a greater methane concentration than the output stream.

Abstract: A system and method for producing argon that uses a higher pressure column, a lower pressure column, and an argon column collectively configured to produce nitrogen, oxygen and argon products through the cryogenic separation of air. The present system and method also employs a once through argon condensing assembly that is disposed entirely within the lower pressure column that is configured to condense an argon rich vapor stream from the argon column against the oxygen-enriched liquid from the higher pressure column to produce an argon liquid product. The control system is configured for optimizing the production of argon product by ensuring an even flow split of the oxygen-enriched liquid is distributed to the argon condenser cores and by adjusting the flow rate of the argon removed from the argon condensing assembly to maintain the liquid/vapor balance in the argon condensing assembly within appropriate limits.

Abstract: A drying device 1 is an airflow continuous drying device, and includes a granulated substance introduction portion 11, a dry process portion 12, and a product ejection portion 13. The granulated substance introduction portion 11 is a stainless steel pipe 21, including a granulated substance inlet 22, into which granulated substances are put, and a hot air inlet 23, into which high-pressure hot air is supplied. The dry process unit 12 includes a loop pipe 25, which is made by winding a stainless steel pipe. The loop pipe 25 is arranged laterally in the horizontal direction, and is able to dry granulated substances in a highly efficient manner without turning the substances into powder. The product ejection portion 13 includes a cyclone collector 26, where the granulated substances are collected after being dried through the loop pipe 25.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a processing system (0) intended to dehydrate food waste (4) comprising at least one device (200) for storing and heating food waste (4) comprising at least one device for stirring the food waste (4), a direct contact heat exchange condenser (34) comprising an opening (37) for extracting incondensable gases from the condenser (34), a first pipe (3) allowing direct communication between the storage device (200) and the condenser (34) to allow the passage of gaseous effluents (22) particularly comprising steam, produced by the heating of said food waste (4) in the waste storage and heating device (200), to the direct contact heat exchange condenser (34), where the steam condenses in contact with a shower of the coolant liquid. The recycling of heat between the condenser (34) and the device (200) for storing and heating food waste is provided by a heat pump (6).

Abstract: An electric arc furnace (EAF) including a raw material container, a set of electrodes, a set of electrical potential transformers, and a reference signal verification device. The set of electrodes are configured to be controllably extended toward the raw material container. The set of electrical potential transformers are correspondingly coupled to the set of electrodes. The reference signal verification device is configured to carry out the steps of reading a reference signal value coming from the raw material container; comparing the reference signal value to an approximated value; and determining that there is a loss of the reference signal if the reference signal value is not within a predetermined amount of the approximated value.

Abstract: One embodiment is directed to an oven for heating fibers. The oven comprises a supply structure disposed within the oven between first and second ends of the oven. The supply structure comprises a plurality of plenums. The plenums are in fluid communication with a heating system. Each of the plenums comprises a pair of side walls, a bottom wall, and a top wall. Each of the plenums is configured so that first openings are formed in the respective side walls of that plenum. At least one plenum is configured so that one or more second openings are formed in at least one of the top wall or the bottom wall of at least one plenum. The at least one plenum is configured to supply heated gas from the heating system into the chamber from the first openings and said one or more second openings of the plenum.

Abstract: A heat exchanger comprises a first header, a second header, a plurality of tubes, and a flow reducer. The first header is connected to a hot fluid inlet and to a cold fluid outlet, so that the first header comprises a hot region and a cold region, separated by a wall. Each of the plurality of tubes provides fluid communication between the first and second headers, including one tube located next to the wall in the hot region of the first header, being called “hot end tube” , and one tube located next to the wall in the cold region of the first header, being called “cold end tube” . The flow reducer reduces the fluid flow in the hot end tube compared to the fluid flow in other tubes located in the hot region.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for an aircraft includes a hot fluid inlet, a hot fluid outlet, a cold fluid inlet, a cold fluid outlet, and a header connected to the hot fluid outlet. The header includes a housing defining a header volume and a baffle separating the header volume into a first volume and a second volume, wherein the first volume and the second volume are in fluid communication with each other.

Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided having a first fluid circuit defining a first volume and configured to permit a first fluid to flow therethrough with a first fluid supply. The heat exchanger includes a second fluid circuit defining a second volume separate from the first volume and sharing at least one common wall with the first enclosed volume, and configured to permit a second fluid to flow therethrough from a second fluid supply. One or more thermal transfer sheets having one or more channels therein are configured in structural and thermal contact with both the first and second fluid circuits, the channels having a thermodynamic fluid disposed therein and configured to transfer heat between the first fluid circuit and the second fluid circuit. A thermal transfer rate through the at least one common wall is less than a thermal transfer rate of the one or more thermal transfer sheets.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods described herein relate to brazed heat exchangers, which may be used for example in a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system (HVAC) system and/or unit thereof. The heat exchanger includes a fluid flow structure to allow a fluid stream, for example a chilled fluid stream to exchange heat serially with more than one refrigerant circuit, where each refrigerant circuit is a distinct and independent refrigerant circuit. Generally, an apparatus to exchange heat serially with more than one heat exchange fluid circuit includes an internal flow path that allows a working fluid to flow through a first brazed heat exchanger, through one or more internal routing channels, and through a second brazed heat exchanger.

Abstract: A hydrogen gas cooling method is provided. The method includes a preparation step and a cooling step. In the preparation step, a heat exchanger that contains a layered body of a first layer and a second layer is prepared. The first layer has a plurality of first micro channels, and the second layer has a plurality of second micro channels. In the cooling step, hydrogen gas is cooled by exchanging heat between the hydrogen gas flowing in the first channels with brine flowing in the second channels.

Abstract: A heat pipe structure includes a first tubular body and a second tubular body. The first tubular body has a first receiving space. A first working fluid is contained in the first receiving space. The second tubular body is disposed in the first receiving space. The second tubular body has a second receiving space. A second working fluid is contained in the second receiving space. The solidification temperature of the first working fluid is different from the solidification temperature of the second working fluid so that the heat pipe structure can be activated at low temperature to keep operating at normal temperature to enhance the performance. Moreover, the assembly applicability is enhanced to lower the assembling cost.

Abstract: A heat pipe structure includes a main body. The main body has a first board body, a second board body, a capillary structure and a working fluid. The first and second board bodies are overlapped and mated with each other to hold the capillary structure. The capillary structure is formed with at least one passage. One of the first and second board bodies is formed with a protrusion section protruding toward the capillary structure. The protrusion section is attached to the capillary structure in adjacency to the passage. Accordingly, the heat pipe structure has an extremely thin thickness.

Abstract: A thin heat pipe structure includes a main body having a chamber. The chamber has a wick structure and a working fluid provided therein, and internally defines an evaporating section and at least one condensing section. The condensing section is extended towards at least one or two ends of the evaporating section. The wick structure is provided with at least one groove. The groove is extended through the wick structure along a thickness direction of the main body to connect to two opposite wall surfaces of the chamber, and also extended along a length direction of the main body to communicate with the condensing section and the evaporating section. With these arrangements, the thin heat pipe structure has an extremely small overall thickness and is flexible.

Abstract: An evaporator for a diphasic heat transfer system with capillary pumping, includes a base plate with a peripheral edge and an outer face for receiving heat receiving calories from a dissipative element, a body with a bottom, side portions and a border adjacent to the peripheral border of the base plate, a porous mass forming a layer with a capillary structure, interposed between the base plate and the bottom, which defines a first gas chamber and a second liquid chamber, the body being assembled on the base plate by crimping, such that there is no need for a gluing, screwing, riveting or welding operation to obtain a tight assembly of the evaporator.

Abstract: A chemical heat storage device that heats a heating target provided in an exhaust pipe 3 from an outer periphery of the heating target, comprising a reactor 9A that contains reaction materials 9a that generate heat by chemical reaction with a reaction medium, an adsorber that adsorbs the reaction medium with an adsorbent to store the reaction medium, and branch pipes 11a and 11b that connect the adsorber and the reactor 9A. The reactor 9A is provided around an outer peripheral surface of a portion at which the heating target is provided in the piping, and includes a plurality of inlet-outlets 9c and 9d through which the reaction medium is fed. The plurality of inlet-outlets 9c and 9d are arranged so as to be at equal intervals in a circumferential direction of the reactor 9A without being positioned in a lower portion of the reactor 9A.

Abstract: A heat transfer device comprising at least an aggregate of fibres or sheet of fibres (60) with internal passages and holes capable of capillary transport of liquids capable of capillary convection of coolant fluid from a heat source region (54) to heat dissipation region (56) and vice versa. A supply of coolant fluid in sufficient amount is provided to be absorbed or contained by said fibres or sheet of fibres (60) with internal passages and holes capable of capillary transport of liquids. A pressure tension member (70) comprising a strong yet resilient structure placed within said confined space and exerting pressure on said aggregate of fibres or sheet of fibres (60) with internal passages and holes capable of capillary transport of liquids against said heat source region (54) and/or heat dissipation region (57).

Abstract: A lightweight, high-efficiency alternating channel counter-flow heat exchanger structure is disclosed. A matrix of alternating hot and cold channels defining a heat exchanger structure is provided. A portion of each of the inlets and outlets of each of the hot and cold channels is blocked to prevent fluid flow through the blocked portion, thus creating hot-only and cold-only fluid communication regions on the ends of the heat exchanger structure. Alternating hot and cold headers provided on each end of the heat exchange structure service the respective hot and cold channels. The partial blocking structures on the channel-ends enable a single hot or cold header/plenum to be offset with respect to individual rows of channels and thus service a pair of adjacent rows of alternating hot and cold channels in the matrix of channels. The true alternating channel counter-flow design provides a higher heat transfer rate than a similarly-sized cross-flow design.

Abstract: A heat sink and mounting bracket arrangement includes a radiation fin module including a stack of radiation fins and an insertion hole located in one end of the stack of radiation fins, and a mounting bracket made from a metal plate sheet by stamping and including a bottom panel clamped on a bottom wall of the stack of radiation fins, an angled mounting panel rearwardly extending from one end of the bottom panel, a mounting slot cut through opposing top and bottom walls of the mounting panel for the mounting of a fastening member to affix the mounting bracket to an external substrate, and an angled plug plate forwardly extending from the bottom panel and tightly press-fitted into the insertion hole of the radiation fin module.

Abstract: A heat exchanger transfers heat between first and second material streams. The heat exchanger includes a body portion including vent channels configured to pass the first material stream through the body portion. The body portion further includes feed channels configured to pass the second material stream through the body portion. The feed channels are spaced from and in thermal communication with the vent channels such that at least one of the first and second material streams transfer heat with another one of the first and second material streams. Each of the feed channels has an inlet having a crosssectional area with the cross-sectional area of the inlet of at least one of the feed channels different than the cross-sectional area of the inlet of another one of the feed channels for normalizing a flow rate of the second material stream through the feed channels.

Abstract: A heat exchange structure, and an assembly as well as to a heat exchange device comprising such a structure, applying heat transfer by boiling of a liquid and comprising a substrate and at least one layer intended to be in contact with a liquid and at least partly positioned on the substrate. The composition of this layer comprises at least a molecular switch having a lower critical solubility temperature TLCST above which it gives the layer non-wetting properties towards the liquid and below which it gives the layer wetting properties towards the liquid, this lower critical solubility temperature TLCST of the molecular switch being selected so as to be greater than or equal to the saturation temperature Tsat of the liquid.

Abstract: A lifetime diagnosis component for anticorrosive coating includes a plate-shaped base member having an aluminum layer on a surface thereof; and a sacrificial anode layer portion formed of zinc on the base member. The surface of the base member has a base-member exposing portion where the aluminum layer is exposed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a firearm configuration for a handgun. The firearm configuration is designed to reduce the recoil forces encountered by a user upon firing the weapon. It further includes a recoil plate that absorbs forces generated by the slide during firing. The various details of the present disclosure, and the manner in which they interrelate, will be described in greater detail hereinafter.

Abstract: An upper receiver for a firearm, the upper receiver having: a hand guard section removably connected to the upper receiver via a locking mechanism pivotally mounted to the hand guard section for movement between a locking position and an unlocking position, wherein the locking mechanism requires only a single movement in one direction to move from the locking position to the unlocking position, wherein the hand guard section has peripheral device mounting rails located at a six o'clock position with respect to a centerline of the barrel and wherein the hand guard section is capable of being completely detached and removed from the upper receiver after the locking mechanism has been moved into the unlocking position; and a plurality of integrally formed rails located above the hand guard section and at three, nine and twelve o'clock positions with respect to the centerline of the barrel.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a trigger comprises a sear surface, a trigger bow extending in a first direction, an arm extending in a second direction different from the first direction and an aperture arranged to receive a trigger pin. The arm comprises a cavity. A lower surface of the arm comprises an aperture in fluid communication with the cavity.

Abstract: A fire control group is capable of operating in multiple, user-selectable modes. The fire control group includes two disconnectors, a selector switch, and a trigger with a tang. The selector switch has a series of cams which interact with the tang of the trigger and surfaces of the two disconnectors to provide different hammer break points (i.e., distances from neutral), reset distances, overtravel distances, and pull weights, depending on a rotational position of the selector switch. In one embodiment, the fire control group is capable of a safe mode, a 2-stage trigger pull, and a 1-stage trigger pull.

Abstract: An electromechanical firing mechanism having a stack of piezoelectric elements arranged to move a firing pin by switching the piezoelectric material from a static state to an electrically charged state. The electromechanical firing mechanism is comprised of a bolt housing a striker and a firing pin. The bolt further includes a base plate and a center axis whereby the firing pin is moveable along that axis. The striker has a distal end and a proximal end, the distal end is fixed to a base plate and the proximal end is coupled to the firing pin. The striker consists of a stack of piezoelectric elements. A control circuit and battery is electrically connected to the piezoelectric materials for switching and powering the piezoelectric material from a static state to an electrically charged state. The stack of piezoelectric elements moves the firing pin into the primer of the cartridge when electrically charged.

Abstract: The present invention relates to rifling of a gun barrel to provide grooves and bores in the gun barrel separated by a single edge area and a polygonal area.

Abstract: A protective device includes a grip having a non-slip surface, a stake projecting from said grip and terminating in a blunt point, point; and a flexible loop projecting from said grip, which is sufficiently long that a user can loop it over a finger to attach the device to the user's hand, and such that it all user's repositioning of the device in a user's palm, whereby the device can be generally concealed within a user's palm, but shifted within his or her palm such that said point of said stake is exposed and can be directed against an attacker to inflict pain and discourage further advances.

Abstract: Low profile receptacle devices that removably receive at least one weapon via a formed friction fit are disclosed. In an aspect, low profile receptacle devices are disclosed that comprise at least one rigid or semi-rigid sheet of material that makes the devices durable, reliable, compact, ergonomic, highly concealable, and easy to use. Such low profile receptacle devices may be worn on a user's belt via integration with at least one belt loop.

Abstract: A dot-sighting device includes a light source, a beam splitter and a reflective element. The light source emits light. The beam splitter includes a surface that reflects at least a portion of a first light component of the light and transmits at least a portion of a second light component. The reflective element reflects at least a portion of the first light component reflected by the surface of the beam splitter toward the beam splitter. The light reflected by the reflective element includes the second light component.

Abstract: A method of fire control against aerial targets traveling towards an object of protection. A position of the object of protection is known. A position of the aerial target is measured. The position of the aerial target is estimated. A velocity of the aerial target is estimated. A model of a guidance law of the aerial target is applied. An acceleration of the aerial target sufficient to hit the object of protection is calculated. A future trajectory of the aerial target is predicted based on the position of the object of protection, the estimated position of the aerial target, the estimated velocity of the aerial target, and the calculated acceleration of the aerial target. Points of aim along the predicted future trajectory are calculated. A fire control system includes at least one sensor for measuring the position of the aerial target as a function of time.

Abstract: A sensor for a missile seeker includes a primary, concave, reflector that is reflective to RF waves and to another kind of waves, but that includes a transmissive region, through which RF waves can pass. A secondary, convex, reflector is reflective to RF waves but transmissive, and not reflective, to the other kind of waves, and is arranged facing the primary reflector to further reflect RF waves reflected by the primary reflector through the transmissive region of the primary reflector. An RF detector is arranged on the opposite side of the primary reflector from the secondary reflector and arranged to detect the RF waves reflected by the secondary reflector through the transmissive region of the primary reflector. A second detector, for detecting the other kind of waves, is arranged on the opposite side of the secondary reflector from the primary reflector and is arranged to detect the other kind of waves after they are reflected by the primary reflector and transmitted through the secondary reflector.

Abstract: The invention combines tiles with an optimal width to thickness ratio together into array(s), and then affixes the array(s) to a depressible adhesive coated substrate. This combination of array(s) and substrates compliments the optimal tile thickness to width ratio to create a more advantageous directional shift of energy dissipation that creates a yaw of the bullet's direction, and subsequent increase of ceramic thickness that the projectile must pass through. The invention eliminates hard epoxies and rigid fiber induced wraps to create a truly flexible matrix that can be applied for use to protect the body with traditional concealable or tactical carriers, or can be used as a “peel and stick” high threat armor system that can be easily field mounted to a vehicle, structure, or aircraft.

Abstract: An armored cab comprises a top wall, two side walls, a front wall, a back wall, and a bottom wall, the cab having a longitudinal axis. The bottom wall comprises a generally centrally disposed downwardly facing smooth concave wall portion extending substantially an entire length of the cab and generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cab and forming a power train tunnel of the cab, and a pair of opposite laterally disposed wall portions extending substantially the entire length of the cab and generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cab, each of the opposite laterally disposed wall portions extending downwardly and laterally inwardly and terminating in a lowermost portion of the bottom wall on either lateral side of the concave wall portion. The concave wall portion and the opposite laterally disposed wall portions are configured so as to present a substantially reduced surface area of the lowermost portions of the bottom wall in a downwardly facing direction.

Abstract: A pyrotechnic gas generator for driving an actuator includes a body defining a combustion chamber housing a main pyrotechnic charge, and an ignitor for initiating combustion of the main pyrotechnic charge. The pyrotechnic gas generator includes at least one delay chamber adapted to communicate with the combustion chamber via at least one inlet orifice, and the delay chamber is provided with at least one outlet orifice for passing gas out from the gas generator. The at least one outlet orifice is provided with a seal adapted to pass from a closed state to an open state when the pressure inside the delay chamber reaches a rupture limit pressure.