Vehicle emergency glass breaker system
AssigneeInteva Products, LLC
InventorBrian Staser
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Abstract
A glass breaker system for shattering a window of a vehicle, including: a source of stored energy that is operably coupled to a glass punch which when released by a release device of the glass breaker system will cause the glass punch to move from an unactuated position to an actuated position, in the unactuated position a tip of the glass punch is not in contact with glass of the window and in the actuated position the tip of the glass punch will contact a portion of the glass of the window with a sufficient force in order to cause it to shatter.
Claims20
A glass breaker system for shattering a window of a vehicle, comprising:
- a source of stored energy that is operably coupled to a glass punch, the source of stored energy when released by a release device of the glass breaker system will cause the glass punch to move from an unactuated position to an actuated position, in the unactuated position a tip of the glass punch is not in contact with glass of the window and in the actuated position the tip of the glass punch will contact a portion of the glass of the window with a sufficient force in order to cause it to shatter.
A vehicle door, comprising:
- a window;
- a glass breaker system for shattering the window, the glass breaker system comprising:
- a source of stored energy that is operably coupled to a glass punch, the source of stored energy when released by a release device of the glass breaker system will cause the glass punch to move from an unactuated position to an actuated position, in the unactuated position a tip of the glass punch is not in contact with glass of the window and in the actuated position the tip of the glass punch will contact a portion of the glass of the window with a sufficient force in order to cause it to shatter.
A method for shattering a window of a vehicle, comprising:
- releasing a source of stored energy of a glass breaker system, the source of stored energy is operably coupled to a glass punch, the source of stored energy when released by a release device of the glass breaker system will cause the glass punch to move from an unactuated position to an actuated position, in the unactuated position a tip of the glass punch is not in contact with glass of the window and in the actuated position the tip of the glass punch will contact a portion of the glass of the window with a sufficient force in order to cause it to shatter.
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