Inflator with flow diverter and heat sink

An inflator (20) having a body (22) including a first combustion chamber (110) and a second combustion chamber (112) and a plurality of exit orifices (90);

• a quantity of first propellant (150) within the first combustion chamber and a quantity of second propellant (180) with the second combustion chamber (112), the second propellant producing inflation gas as it combusts;
• separating means (100) for separating the first and second combustion chambers and for directing products of combustion produced upon the burning of the first propellant radially into the second combustion chamber;
• the body (22) proximate the second combustion chamber (112) including a plurality of control orifices (90);
• flow diverter means (70) for causing inflation gas exiting the control orifices to flow through an arcuate path between the control orifices and the exit orifices (30);
• heat sink means (230) and (234) for changing the physical state of at least one gaseous component of the inflation gas to a liquid and a solid prior to this component exiting the exit orifices.