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- ABSTRACT A pyrotechnic powder composition comprising a mixture of an oxidizer compound containing oxygen and a metal selected from the group consisting of sodium, potassium, lithium, barium, magnesium and calcium, and an oxygen bearing metal organic compound is used for inflating a passenger restraint bag for an automobile.
- the compounds are selected so that a stoichiometric reaction between the oxidizer and the oxygen bearing metal organic compound yields carbon dioxide and water vapor and at least a binary mixture of metal salts having a melting point substantially below the melting point of any of the resultant metal salts alone, and having net heat of reaction less than about 1,000 calories per gram of pyrotechnic composition.
- One preferred composition comprises about 35 percent sodium formate and 65 percent potassium chlorate, for example.
- Governmental requirements for automobile passenger restraint systems include an inflatable bag that momentarily and temporarily restrains a passenger during the critical instant of a collision impact.
- the bag For safe and successful use, the bag must be inflated in very short time and thereafter deflated to release the passenger.
- the gas used to inflate the bag must be cool enough to avoid damage to the bag and injury to the passenger. For similar reasons, it is important that hot particles do not reach the interior of the bag.
- the gasses used must have a low toxicity and for this reason carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulphur compounds and the like are undesirable.
- deflation of the bag is obtained by using a fabric of controlled porosity since the entire phenomenon of passenger restraint is kinetic.
- the bag rapidly inflates without a substantial pressure gradient across the fabric and little gas flows therethrough during the short time interval of inflation.
- Substantial pressures may be created in the bag as it restrains a passenger during impact and the energy of the passenger is dissipated over a period of time which is controlled by the porosity of the fabric. Quite a bit of gas is pushed out of the bag during this time. Subsequently the bag deflates as gas flows through the fabric over a somewhat longer period of time.
- the gas in such an embodiment is dissipated in the passenger compartment of the automobile in close proximity to the passenger being restrained, low temperature and low toxicity are of appreciable importance.
- the pyrotechnic composition must be sufficiently stable to sustain the temperature, vibration and other environmental characteristics of an automobile for a prolonged period without degradation of performance. In a typical embodiment, about 265 grams of pyrotechnic composition may be employed for inflating a five cubic foot bag. For this reason it is desirable that the composition be relatively inexpensive.
- a relatively cool, non-toxic, substantially smoke free gas generating composition comprising a mixture of an oxidizer compound containing oxygen and a metal and an oxygen bearing metal organic compound selected so that a stoichiometric reaction therebetween yields gaseous carbon dioxide and water vapor and a low melting, at least binary mixture of metal salts and a net heat of reaction less about 1,000 calories per gram.
- An excess of oxidizer over the stoichiometric proportion may be used to provide oxygen in the gas.
- DESCRIPTION It is known that one can mix an oxidizer powder and a reducing powder and ignite them to produce a mixture of carbon dioxide and water vapor for inflating a passenger restraint bag for an automobile. Such powders are mixed and packed into a cavity in a gas generator. An electrical initiator is provided in the cavity for adding a sudden localized burst of energy for raising the temperature of the pyrotechnic mixture well above its ignition temperature. Once ignited, the entire mixture is typically consumed to produce carbon dioxide and/or water vapor which are directed to a passenger restraint bag for inflation. Some of the products of combustion are typically not gaseous and may remain in the gas generator or pass into the passenger restraint bag in the form of hot particles or as a smoke of finely divided particles.
- compositions are provided with low net heat of reaction and which produce substantially smoke free gasses and a low melting slag that deposits within the gas generator rather than being carried into the passenger restraint bag.
- Citric acid and potassium chlorate reacted in a stoichiometric mixture have a net heat of reaction of about 912 calories per gram.
- the net heat of reaction is about 792 calories per gram which is one of the lowest calorific outputs available from a suitable carbohydrate.
- Other carbohydrates may be suitable from an energy point of view, but unsuitable because of low melting point, low decomposition temperature, high cost, toxicity, or the like.
- the pyrotechnic mixtures utilized in practice of this invention overcome many of the physical and chemical problems associated with the organic materials having low net heats of reaction. Substantial variations in properties can be obtained in practice of this invention, which allows considerable latitude in adjusting the calorific output of the pyrotechnic mixture to an optimum level for a particular application.
- the oxidizers employed in practice of this invention are compounds including oxygen and a metal, and are preferably selected from the class of the chlorates and perchlorates of sodium, potassium, lithium, barium, magnesium and calcium.
- the peroxides, superoxides and permanganates of these metals may be suitable.
- Other oxidizers that are suitable include chlorates of aluminum, cadmium, lead, and nickel; perchlorates of barium, lead, manganese and nickel; ammonium chlorate; ammonium perchlorate; cobaltous chlorate; cobaltous perchlorate; cupric chlorate; and ferrous perchlorate. Some of these are more hygroscopic than the preferred materials and need protection from water vapor.
- ammonium chlorate and ammonium perchlorate yield ammonium chloride upon reaction which also forms a low melting slag with metal salts.
- the chlorates and perchlorates are particularly preferred, since the non-gaseous product resulting from reaction is the chloride of the metal.
- the combination of the metal chloride with other metal containing reaction products serves to make a low melting mixture which collects on the walls of the gas generator rather than being carried into the passenger restraint bag.
- the pyrotechnic composition also includes an oxygen containing metal organic compound which reacts with the oxidizer when the pyrotechnic mixture is ignited.
- an oxygen containing metal organic compound which reacts with the oxidizer when the pyrotechnic mixture is ignited.
- oxygen bearing metal organic compounds include calcium formate, lithium formate, lithium acid oxalate, potassium formate, potassium acid oxalate, sodium formate, and sodium acid oxalate. Reaction of any of these materials with the above identified oxidizers yields a large volume of gas in the form of carbon dioxide and water vapor without unduly high caloric outputs.
- the net heat of stoichiometric reaction of calcium formate and potassium perchlorate is only 426 calories per gram.
- the net heat of stoichiometric reaction of sodium formate and potassium perchlorate is only 220 calories per gram.
- a mixture of 67 percent potassium formate and 33 percent potassium chlorate has a net heat of only 52 calories per gram.
- the metal formates identified above are preferred in practice of this invention since the net heat of reaction with an oxidizer is quite low and yet the reaction is sufficiently exothermic that once initiated it continues to completion.
- the net heat of a pyrotechnic composition can be reduced by including a metal acid oxalate along with the metal formate. This reduces the temperature of the reaction products.
- the general reason for this can be understood by noting that the formula for the metal formates is MH C O where M indicates any metal and it will be understood that suitable adjustments in the formula will be made for the metal valence.
- the formula for the metal acid oxalate is MHC O
- suitable mixtures of metal formate, and metal acid oxalate a broad range of net heats of reaction can be obtained in order to adjust the temperature of the reaction products and the rapidity of the combustion reaction.
- Exemplary of the low net heats of reaction obtainable in practice of this invention include 27 percent potassium chlorate and 73 percent barium formate with a net heat of reaction of about 223 calories per gram.
- 78 percent lead formate is reacted with 22 percent potassium chlorate a net heat of about 300 calories per gram is obtained.
- Zinc formate and potassium chlorate in the stoichiometric proportion yield a net heat of about 506 calories per gram. With such a variety available, almost any desired net heat of reaction is obtainable with suitable mixtures of reactants.
- the metal acid oxalates are useful since the caloric output is low and the rate of reaction may be sufficient to be self-sustaining. From all of these materials, nontoxic gases are obtained.
- oxygen bearing metal organic compounds are found to be suitable components of a pyrotechnic mixture: aluminum acetate, aluminum citrate, barium formate, barium acetate, barium citrate, barium butyrate, barium malonate, barium propionate, barium succinate, cadmium formate, cadmium acetate, cadmium lactate, calcium formate, calcium acetate, calcium citrate, calcium tartrate, calcium lactate, calcium benzonate, calcium salicylate, cerous acetate, cesium acid tartrate, chromic acetate, cobaltous acetate, columbium acid oxalate, cupric formate, cupric acetate, dysprosium acetate, erbium acetate, ferric acetate, ferrous formate, ferrous acetate, ferrous
- Some of these materials are less suitable than the particularly preferred group because of cost or somewhat higher net heat of reaction or formation of a somewhat higher melting point binary mixture after reaction with the oxidizer. In some cases, despite these factors, the materials are quite useful in combination with the oxygen bearing metal organic compounds, particularly preferred in the pyrotechnic composition.
- This intermediate group of compounds comprises: aluminum citrate, barium formate, barium citrate, calcium formate, calcium citrate, calcium acid tartrate, chromic acetate, cupric formate, ferrous tartrate, lithium formate, lithium acid oxalate, lithium citrate, magnesium formate, magnesium citrate, magnesium tartrate, manganese formate, nickel formate, potassium formate, potassium acid oxalate, potassium citrate, potassium tartrate, potassium acid tartrate, silver citrate, silver tartrate, sodium formate, sodium acid oxalate, sodium citrate, sodium tartrate, sodium acid tartrate, strontium formate, strontium tartrate, zinc forrnate, and zinc oxalate.
- the materials listed above are exemplary of compounds including a single metal rather than a plurality of metals and it will be understood that there are additional compounds suitable for practice of this invention having two metal ions in the oxygen bearing organic compound.
- sodium potassium tartrate is well suited to practice of this invention.
- Many other oxygen bearing metal organic compounds having more than one metal ion in the molecule will be apparent.
- Such binary metal organic compounds can be particularly useful in combination with an oxidizer having still a third metal in order to produce ternary nongaseous reaction product mixtures having quite low melting points.
- the proportion of oxidizer compound and oxygen bearing metal organic compound be present in the pyrotechnic composition in a proportion that reacts to produce gasses consisting primarily of carbon dioxide and water vapor, primarily to avoid formation of carbon monoxide which is toxic. Even though carbon dioxide and water are not toxic, they can displace oxygen from the local environment and it is therefore often desirable to have a proportion of oxygen in the reaction product as well. This is readily accomplished by increasing the proportion of oxidizer compound above the stoichiometric proportion. Thus, for example, when two moles of sodium formate are reacted with one mole of potassium perchlorate, the reaction products include two moles of carbon dioxide and one mole each of water vapor and oxygen.
- the net heat of reaction is only 164 calories per gram and percent of the gas is oxygen. If larger proportions of oxygen or pyrotechnic compositions with lower caloric outputs are desired, still higher excesses of oxidizer above stoichiometry may be used. This is done at the expense of burning rate of the pyrotechnic; however, this can ordinarily be compensated for by variation in the geometry of the gas generator and increase of the energy of the electric initiator to achieve an optimum burning rate. Generally speaking, it is preferred that the excess of oxidizer over the stoichiometric proportion be no more than about percent by weight of the total pyrotechnic mixture, so that special means are not required for adjusting burning rate or the like and the compositions are more universally useful.
- the oxidizer compound be present in a proportion less than about 30 percent over the stoichiometric proportion, since the volume of gas obtained by reaction is greater than the volume of gas obtained by mere decomposition and there is no substantial benefit in further increasing the oxygen content of the reaction products.
- the rate of reaction is rather slow for a successful automobile passenger restraint system.
- the rate of reaction can be enhanced by energetic initiation of the combustion of the powder mixture. Such initiation of the reaction can be accomplished by a variety of chemical reactions that generate high temperatures. Many such initiators, however, introduce toxic gases and should be avoided. It is, therefore, particularly preferred to initiate the reaction in the gas generator by a deflagration mixture formed of the powders of an inorganic oxidizer compound and an oxygen bearing organic fuel.
- the oxidizer compounds hereinabove identified are suitable for the initiation mixture.
- the chlorates and perchlorates of the alkali metals are preferred.
- the oxygen bearing organic fuel is one having a formula C H O where x, y and z are integers.
- the powder should have an average particle size less than about 25 microns and be solid at all temperatures below about F in order to be satisfactory for an automobile passenger restraint system.
- Suitable organic fuels can be selected from the group consisting of sucrose, starch, cellulose, dextrose, dextrin, fructose, lactose, ascorbic acid, benzoic acid, maltose monohydrate, mannitol, mannoheptose, mannoheptose monohydrate, oxalic acid, propanediolic acid and glyoxylic acid.
- the oxidizer and fuel are mixed in stoichiometric proportions for producing principally carbon dioxide and water vapor as the gaseous products, since this yields a maximum initiation energy.
- an initiator mixture of about 25 grams is sufficient. Many other high energy initiation techniques will be apparent to one skilled in the art.
- a reaction of important significance to the overall performance of the gas generator system for a passenger restraint bag involves the nongaseous products of the reaction between the oxidizer compound and the oxygen bearing metal organic compound.
- the reaction typically produces a metal oxide and when the chlorates or perchlorates are used, a metal chloride.
- Such binary mixtures of metal salts have melting points that are below the melting point of either of the metal salts alone.
- the binary mixtures of metal oxide and metal chloride have particularly low melting points and combinations of oxidizer and metal organic compound yielding such a mixture upon reaction are preferred. If oxidizers are used that do not yield a metal chloride, it is preferred that different metal ions be present in at least part of the oxidizer and metal organic. This assures at least a binary mixture of metal salts for getting a melting point lower than either metal salt alone. Ternary or more complex mixtures of metal salts may be used for low melting.
- the melting point of the non-gaseous reaction products is of considerable importance in an automobile passenger restraint system in keeping the reaction products from entering the passenger restraint bag.
- a metal oxide or metal chloride or the like was produced from a pyrotechnic composition, the temperature of the product was such that most of it was in solid form which passed int-o the passenger restraint bag, either as hot particles or in a sufficiently finely divided form to appear as a smoke. Neither of these is satisfactory.
- the non-gaseous products apparently remain in liquid form for a longer period and can solidify on the cooler walls of the gas generator and similar solid surfaces.
- a spongy mass of a ceramic like material forms in the gas generator and very little, if any, smoke goes to the bag.
- the low melting mixture of nongaseous reaction products accounts for a substantial proportion of the reaction heat. Since these products collect on the walls of the gas generator, much of the heat remains in the gas generator and is not conveyed into the passenger restraint bag. This enhanced retention of heat in the gas generator itself permits the use of pyrotechnic mixtures having somewhat higher net heats of reaction than could be tolerated if the non-gaseous reaction products were largely passed to the passenger restraint bag as has been the case previously.
- the low melting mixture of non-gaseous reaction products is a binary mixture such as, for example, calcium oxide and potassium chloride, sodium oxide and sodium chloride, lithium chloride and potassium oxide, or sodium oxide and potassium chloride.
- ternary mixtures non-gaseous reaction products such as, for example, nickel oxide, potassium oxide and sodium chloride may be lower than the melting point obtainable with any of the three possible binary mixtures.
- the metal containing oxidizer and the oxygen bearing metal organic compound are selected so that the non-gaseous reaction products form at least a binary mixture of metal salts having a melting point less than the melting point of any of the metal salts formed by the reaction. If desired, ternary, quaternary or other mixtures of metal salts may be created for significant melting point reductions.
- the pyrotechnic mixture comprises an intimate combination of oxidizer compound powder and oxygen bearing metal organic powder.
- Such powders are preferably compacted at light pressures, such as for example, 50 to 100 psi although substantially higher compaction pres sures can be employed without significantly affecting the rate of reaction.
- the compaction pressure is less than about 5,000 psi, since pressures in that order may alter the burning characteristics of the pyrotechnic mixture.
- a compacted powder is less affected by vibration like that encountered in a passenger restraint system in an automobile, than are pellets or grains which may break up and therefore change their burning characteristics.
- the burning rate of the powder can be controlled by the compaction pressure and it is also susceptible to packing into gas generators of non-uniform cross section, which may be employed for controlling the burning rate.
- the particle size of the metal organic compound and the oxidizer is less than about 25 microns in order to obtain substantially complete reaction without a residue of unburned materials or undue production of hot reaction particles.
- the particle size of both the metal organic powder and the oxidizer powder is less than about 5 microns, substantially complete reaction therebetween is virtually certain and unintentional formation of carbon monoxide thereby inhibited.
- Particularly preferred combinations of metal containing oxidizer powder and oxygen bearing metal organic compound forming a pyrotechnic composition include calcium formate in the range of from about 35 to 60 percent by weight and potassium chlorate in the range of from 40 to percent by weight; calcium formate in the range of from about 40 to 65 percent by weight and potassium perchlorate in the range of from about 35 to 60 percent by weight; sodium formate in the range of from about 35 to 60 percent by weight and potassium chlorate in the range of from about 40 to 65 percent by weight; sodium formate in the range of from about 40 to 65 percent by weight and potassium perchlorate in the range of from about 35 to 60 percent by weight; nickel formate in the range of from about 50 to 69 percent by weight and potassium chlorate in the range of from about 31 to 50 percent by weight; and nickel formate in the range of from about 65 to 72 percent by weight and potassium perchlorate in the range of from about 28 to 35 percent by weight.
- compositions comprise potassium chlorate in a proportion of about 65 percent and either sodium formate or calcium formate in a proportion of about 35 percent by weight.
- the composition including calcium formate is particularly well suited for inflating a passenger restraint bag deployed from the center of a steering wheel in an automobile. The reaction is relatively rapid and the restraint bag can be completely inflated in about 25 milliseconds.
- the sodium formate bearing composition is particularly preferrerd for the right front passenger seat of an automobile. The reaction is somewhat slower than the one between calcium formate and potassium chlorate and the passenger restraint bag is completely inflated in about 50 to 60 milliseconds.
- compositions include about 30 percent calcium formate, 30 percent potassium acid oxalate and 40 percent potassium chlorate which reacts with a net heat of about 200 calories per gram.
- the resultant slag is a ternary mixture of potassium chloride, potassium oxide and calcium oxide which has a melting point substantially below 1,400F.
- Another preferred composition comprises about 30 percent sodium for mate, 30 percent potassium acid oxalate and 40 percent potassium chlorate.
- the ternary slag produced by such reaction has a melting point in the range of about 800 to 1,000F.
- Another suitable composition having a ternary slag and low net heat of reaction comprises about 30 percent calcium oxalate, 30 percent formate and 40 percent potassium chlorate.
- a large number of pyrotechnic compositions in accordance with principles of this invention have been made and tested by igniting them in a gas generator connected to an inflatable passenger restraint bag.
- time of bag inflation, pressure in the gas generator, volume of gas produced, temperature of gas in the bag, gas composition, smoke formation and the like have been measured.
- the presence or absence of hot particles in the inflation bag and characteristics of deposits in the gas generator have been observed.
- Other tests include calorimetry, bench tests of burn rate, gas production tests, and the like with an actual bag connected to the gas generator.
- the following pyro technic compositions have performed satisfactorily in tests evaluating performance of this invention:
- Nickel formate 65%, potassium perchlorate 35%
- a pyrotechnic powder composition consisting essentially of a mixture of one or more oxidizer compounds containing oxygen and a metal selected from the group consisting of sodium, potassium, lithium, barium, magnesium and calcium, and one or more oxygen bearing metal organic compounds selected such that a stoichiometric reaction between the oxidizer and the metal organic compound yields gaseous products selected from the class consisting of carbon dioxide and water vapor and non-gaseous products of at least a binary mixture of metal salts having a melting point substantially below the melting point of any of the resultant metal salts and having a net heat of reaction less than about 1,000 calories per gram, the proportion of oxidizer compound to metal organic compound being no less than the stoichiometric proportion.
- a pyrotechnic powder composition comprising a mixture of an oxidizer compound containing oxygen and a metal selected from the group consisting of sodium, potassium, lithium, barium, magnesium and calcium, and a metal organic compound selected from the class consisting of metal acid oxalates and metal formates.
- a pyrotechnic powder composition comprising a mixture of an oxidizer compound selected from the group consisting of sodium chlorate, sodium perchlorate, potassium chlorate, potassium perchlorate, lithium chlorate, lithium perchlorate, barium chlorate, barium perchlorate, magnesium chlorate, magnesium perchlorate, calcium chlorate, calcium perchlorate, aluminum chlorate, ammonium chlorate, ammonium perchlorate, cadmium chlorate, cobaltous chlorate, cobaltous perchlorate, cupric chlorate, ferrous perchlorate, lead chlorate, lead perchlorate, manganese perchlorate, nickel chlorate and nickel perchlorate; and an oxygen bearing metal organic compound selected from the group consisting of aluminum acetate, aluminum citrate, barium formate, barium acetate, barium citrate, barium butyrate, barium 'malonate, barium propionate, barium succinate, cadmium formate, cadmium acetate, cadmium lactate
- the oxygen bearing metal organic compound is selected from the group consisting of aluminum citrate, barium formate, barium citrate, calcium formate, calcium citrate, calcium acid tartrate, chromic acetate, cupric formate, ferrous tartrate, lithium formate, lithium acid oxa
- a pyrotechnic powder composition as defined in claim 6 wherein the oxygen bearing metal organic compound is selected from the group consisting of calcium formate, lithium formate, lithium acid oxalate, potassium formate, potassium acid oxalate, sodium formate, and sodium acid oxalate.
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