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US 2017/0323747 A1Published application
Pyrotechnic safety element
AssigneeLEONI Bordnetz-Systeme GmbH
InventorsMARTIN BURGER, PETER STEINER
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Abstract
A pyrotechnic safety element is particularly suited for use in motor vehicles. The safety element includes a conductor, a pyrotechnic unit with a pyrotechnic propellant charge, a severing member for severing the conductor, and a housing. The conductor is composed of two separate conductor parts which are joined at a joining point and are severed by the severing member when the device is triggered.
Claims15
A pyrotechnic safety element, comprising:
- a conductor formed of two separate conductor parts being sheet-metal strips arranged along a common axis, said two separate parts adjoining one another in a longitudinal direction and being connected to one another at a connecting point by a formed connection;
- a pyrotechnic unit with a pyrotechnic propellant charge;
- a severing member for severing said conductor, said severing member, upon a triggering of the pyrotechnic safety element, moving along the common axis in the longitudinal direction in order to disconnect the two conductor parts from one another at said connecting point;
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- a housing enclosing said pyrotechnic unit said connecting point and said severing member.
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