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The first all-girl rock band in Indian-controlled Kashmir has decided to disband after only one concert because of threats its teenage members received on social media and a demand from a top Muslim cleric that they stop performing.
The fate of Pragaash, which means 'First Light' in Kashmiri, highlights the simmering tension between modernity and tradition in Muslim-majority Kashmir, where an armed uprising against Indian rule and a relentless crackdown by government forces have killed more than 68,000 people since 1989.
Separatists criticised the band for what it said was ''Western-style cultural waywardness''.
Adnan Mattoo, the rock group's music teacher and manager, said the three high school students who formed Pragaash — drummer Farah Deeba, bass guitarist Aneeqa Khalid and singer and guitarist Noma Nazir — won't talk about their decision to disband and what led to it.
''They feel terribly scared and want an immediate end to this controversy once for all,'' Mattoo said.
''First, the girls had decided to quit live performance due to an online hate campaign and concentrate on making an album. But after an edict by the government's own cleric, these girls are saying goodbye to music.''
However, a girl identified as one of the band members told India's CNN-IBN channel later in a telephone interview that the group decided to disband because of the top cleric's edict, and not because of the online abuse. The girl was not identified by name.
The girl told the station that they respected the cleric's decision because he was ''more aware of our religion'' and she pleaded with the media to stop reporting on the case.
''Everything was going fine till the fatwa was issued,'' she said.
Pragaash performed in public for the first time in December in Srinagar, the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
It won third place in an annual 'Battle of the Bands' rock show organised by an Indian paramilitary force as part of a campaign to win hearts and minds in the region.
Soon after the show, Kashmiri pages on social networking sites like Facebook hotly debated the band.
Some questioned whether the performance was appropriate in the Muslim-dominated society in Kashmir and others raised broader questions on the Islamic approach to music and role of women in the society.
Many commenters backed the girls, but others were abusive, calling them ''sluts'' and ''prostitutes'' and calling for them and their families to be expelled from the region.
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Mufti Bashiruddin Ahmad, Kashmir's state-sponsored cleric, issued a fatwa Sunday ordering the girls to ''stop from these activities and not to get influenced by the support of political leadership''.
Kashmir's main separatist alliance, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, criticised Abdullah for selectively supporting freedom of expression and said the band's concert was ''a step toward diverting young girls toward Westernisation''.
However, the alliance distanced itself from the cleric's edict and denied the girls were under threat. ''Indian media is blowing up a small issue with a purpose to defame the Kashmiri freedom struggle,'' the alliance said.
Experts say for most people in Kashmir, neither women performers nor music are a problem.
''It becomes an issue when these strings are used to subvert a dominant political reality,'' said Wasim Bhat, a Kashmiri sociologist.
Kashmir has a long tradition of poetry and music, and has produced iconic female singers including Raj Begum, Kailash Mehra, Naseem Begum and Shamima Azad, the wife of India's health minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad.
That cultural heritage suffered when Muslim militants began their armed campaign two decades ago to gain independence for Indian-controlled Kashmir or its merger with Pakistan.
The rebels ordered the closure of cinemas and liquor shops, calling them ''un-Islamic'' and vehicles of India's cultural aggression. India's military responded to the insurrection with crackdowns that included torture, kidnapping, extortion and murder.
As armed violence waned in recent years, music shows and theatre performances re-emerged, but some of the boundaries set during the conflict remained.
In 1996, a group of four girls broke a centuries-old convention when they started learning Sufiyana music, a classical Persian genre of music which Kashmir adopted after Persian Sufi saints started visiting the region.
A music school named after legendary Sufiyana maestro Ustad Ghulam Mohammed Qaleenbaf began training the girls at a time when guns roared in every corner of the region.
''Despite the unprecedented unrest, I received support from everyone who came to know of my initiative,'' said Sheikh Mohammed Yaqoob, Qaleenbaf's grandson.
Bhat, the sociologist, said nobody objected to the initiative ''perhaps because they stayed within a tradition that does not contest the present-day political realities here''.
''The tension between modern and traditional is in every society. But what exemplifies this in a conflict situation like Kashmir is its motivated politicization,'' he said.
Mattoo, the manager, did not hide his anger.
''I know it from my last eight years' experience that we could have easily dealt with the online abuse,'' Mattoo said.
''We were failed by the government-run mufti, who asked us to forget our music and declared our band against the religion,'' he said.
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Day 105: Taking it Easy
Tonight I will not grapple with a healing topic or work on an exercise. Although I do have an exercise from my T. Maybe I'll get to it tomorrow or some other day. No hurry.
I'm going to watch a little TV and try to turn in early. I'm wiped out after the intense emotions I have felt the last few days and the nearly non-existent sleep that has gone with them. I'm tired . . . but I'm not feeling anxious or panicky. I have felt angry and sad but I've had none of the physical symptoms I get when something is bothering me.
I believe I have had my first taste of what it's like to just feel difficult emotions and express them.
I'm off to take it easy for the rest of the night.


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I remember the day I tried to pick up a two-hundred pound sack of fertilizer. I was young and thought I was strong but I could not budge it. A short, thin, wiry man walked up, knelt down and grabbed it, heisted it up and onto his shoulder and walked off with it. This took place at R.W. Griffins Warehouse somewhere around 1959. By then, 200 pound sacks were relics, but back in the bowels of that old warehouse there were many relics that today would be priceless antiques. I would go there each day after school and help do whatever work was at hand, like unloading a boxcar of fertilizer until 5:30 and quitting time, whereupon I would catch a ride home with one of the men who worked there and who lived close to our home. You see, my Momma was working in Douglas at C.O. Smith Guano Company then and she moved me from the Hebron Institute of Higher Learning of the Piney Woods to the Douglas Elementary School where she thought for some reason that I would have more opportunity to excel. This plan might have worked except for the assorted miscreants in my sixth grade class with whom I became fast friends. All I knew at that time was hunting, fishing, and work. They introduced me to other areas of human endeavor that I didn't even know existed, all of which were in direct conflict with my Sunday school upbringing and complete innocence. Of course, they say the same thing about me though I am the one still in recovery. Anyway, rather than ride home with Momma each afternoon, I chose to work at the fertilizer warehouse for free after school and hang around with the older men who didn't care if I smoked, chewed, or cussed, as long as I worked. Muddy Waters called it being a 'mannish boy'.
I am glad that fertilizer came in 100-pound sacks by the time I was in my prime. I could handle them all day long. By the time I had made my fortune and retired from farming, 50-pound bags became the norm. It is a good thing, too, for I could hardly handle a 25-pound bag now. By the time this new generation takes over, fertilizer will probably have to be sold by the five-pound sack full because I believe we are getting softer with each passing generation. For most of this latest generation, a truly hard day's work would kill them dead as a doornail.
I believe that if every South Georgia County started a county 'education' farm where all the criminals and other ne'er-do-wells of the community could be sentenced to work the fields all season long, we would be better off. After a daylight to dark day of topping and suckering tobacco, hoeing cotton, or pulling weeds from the peanuts in the summer heat, most of this criminal class would petition the Governor to let them go back to school where they would be glad to excel in order to avoid more of the 'education' we used to take as a given.
I can see the Reverend's Al and Jesse and a host of Hollywood stars like Alec Baldwin, Woody Harrelson, Rosie O'Donnell and Steven Spielberg picketing at the end of the row and spouting platitudes about how inhumane it is to make people work like this.
To tell you the truth, I think the whole country would be better off if the entire Hollywood, network news, and D.C. crowd had to endure a little taste of this 'education'. It might cause a rebirth of common sense.
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And from the looks of it, it's once again a five-star Bus Cook Production.For the third time in four NFL offseasons, Cook, the veteran agent who doesn't mind going public when the need arises, has one of his big-name quarterback clients locked into some sort of ugly and protracted stand-off with his particular team. 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That's roughly how McNair became a Raven for the last two years of his career, and how Favre pulled on that green and white Jets jersey for one last celebrated go-round on the quarterback carousel.Now it's Cutler's turn, and Cook is doing his level best to shoot his young star's way out of town. His client wants a trade, and Cook has a tried and true playbook for leveraging that particular scenario. Interestingly, Cutler, Favre and McNair are the only three NFL quarterbacks Cook represents, and the latter two are retired."Bus has a pattern here with this sort of thing,'' one veteran NFL general manager told me Monday afternoon. "And he's been successful with it before. What you have here is an agent trying to dictate the position of an entire franchise. He sees an opportunity, because he knows [the Broncos] are vulnerable to pressure. They've got a new, 32-year-old head coach [Josh McDaniels], a new young general manager [Brian Xanders], and an owner in Pat Bowlen who has only recently re-engaged in the decision-making of his team."Bus is turning up the heat because he knows there has been a tremendous amount of change going on there in Denver. He's trying to break the organization, break the ownership, now that it's just Bowlen and these two young guys. There are new people in Denver and they exposed themselves with the dabbling they did [in trade talks], and now they've got an agent trying to make it as miserable as he can for them. He's creating some pressure through the media, and trying to see how strong these three are going to be. Will they sit there and be able to take the heat? Something like this can bring an organization to its knees.''Reached Tuesday, Cook dismissed the notion that there were any meaningful similarities between the way McNair left Tennessee, Favre left Green Bay and Cutler appears headed for a divorce in Denver."Yeah, there's a common denominator in that I do represent all three of these guys,'' Cook told SI.com Tuesday. "And they're all very good quarterbacks. But they were three different situations. And that's about the extent of it."None of these guys really ever wanted to play elsewhere. Steve [McNair] never asked to be traded from Tennessee. He still lives in Nashville. And Brett [Favre] didn't ask to be traded either. He just wanted to play football again with the Packers, and I still don't understand why they didn't want him to. 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Not us.''But one veteran agent with several high-profile NFL clients said that everything that has unfolded in Denver regarding Cutler in the past three weeks fits nicely under the heading of a "classic case of an agent trying to get his guy traded.''Another longtime agent I talked to said few are better than Cook at "busting a guy out of there'' when a player wants to be traded, and that he has a history of using maximum leverage against a team."If the client wants out, then he's doing the will of his client,'' the agent said. "And Bus' M.O. is to play it out very publicly. If this was another agent, things could be done behind the scenes and you wouldn't be hearing about it. But just like coordinators have their own schemes that they like, so do agents. By now, teams should have seen film of Bus, and scouted him well. They know what's coming when he has a client who wants out.''The football-speak may sound funny when talking about an agent, but it's true in Cook's case. I talked to a Packers official who said the organization gleaned valuable insight during last summer's Favre showdown from what happened between McNair and Tennessee in 2006. He said the "whole Steve McNair playbook'' helped the Packers because they were determined not to give Cook any reason to claim that the team had shown Favre any disrespect when he returned to Green Bay during training camp.Due to the team's concerns about being liable for his $23 million salary cap number should McNair get injured during offseason workouts, the Titans quarterback had been locked out of the team complex that spring, an indignity that Cook used superbly in the public-relations battle against the franchise. The Packers threw open their doors for Favre and gave him free reign to use anything he wanted, including his luxury suite. Some Titans officials even offered advice to their counterparts in Green Bay on what to look out for when facing a battle with one of Cook's quarterback clients.Cook counters by pointing out that Favre bought and paid for the use of his luxury suite at Lambeau Field, and that on the night Favre reported to Packers training camp after being reinstated from retirement, team officials blocked him from being on the sidelines at the intrasquad scrimmage. Favre was told, Cook said, that the only place he could watch the scrimmage was from his suite at Lambeau.Another echo from the past that has reminded some of Favre's stance last summer has been Cutler's refusal to meet with his new head coach, McDaniels, without Cook in the room, or on the phone, at the same time. Packers general manager Ted Thompson and head coach Mike McCarthy have privately maintained that they felt Cook poisoned the relationship between Favre and the Packers decision-makers. Broncos sources say the same dynamic is in place regarding how Cutler feels about the new power structure of McDaniels and Xanders in Denver.Some NFL sources I talked to believe Cook's ultimate goal in getting Cutler out of Denver is really more about landing him a new contract with a new team. Cutler has three years remaining on his relatively low-paying $48-million, six-year rookie deal, signed in 2006 after Denver traded the 15th and 68th picks to St. Louis to nab him at No. 11. He likely wouldn't be in line for a contract extension from the Broncos until 2011."My feeling is this is all about a contract,'' said the veteran NFL general manager. "He's got three years left, and that's a lifetime in this league. I think it's being orchestrated for money, and to get rid of the last three years of that deal. Either he gets traded and wants a new five-year deal from his new team as part of a trade, or it's about trying to get the Broncos to show how committed they are to him, by giving him a long-term deal."I'm curious to see which way it goes. But it's getting uglier by the day. The agent and the player are saying other things, like Cutler can't trust McDaniels and he's not comfortable with the new regime, but I think it comes back to the contract. I know this much: It's all going downhill like a snowball at this point.''Cook flatly denies that any thought of getting Cutler a new contract is involved in the falling out that his client and the Broncos have suffered. "Are we trying to get Jay Cutler a new contract with this situation? That's absolutely not true,'' Cook said. "I never even thought about it. He's got three years left on his deal. The whole thing in Denver is about whether they really wanted Jay as their quarterback. That's the gist of it.''One NFL source pointed out that with both Favre and McNair retired, Cook doesn't have two of the best advertisements for his services playing in the league any more. Other than New England receiver Randy Moss, Cutler is Cook's highest-profile client (although he also represents Falcons running back Michael Turner and Patriots linebacker Adalius Thomas). Successfully agitating Cutler out of Denver will perhaps help recruit new clients and keep Cook's name both in the news and on the A-list of agents.But while McNair and Favre were both traded near the end of their long and successful careers, Cutler's case is very different in that key respect. He's entering only his fourth NFL season, and third full year as a starter. While he's known as an obvious talent with a gifted right arm, he's not the proven commodity that McNair and Favre were when Cook worked to relocate them to a new NFL venue.That leads some NFL sources to question whether Cook's methods are as wise to employ on behalf of Cutler at this point in his career as they were on veterans such as McNair and Favre?"In this league, you really only get to cry wolf once in your career, and Cutler's using that option pretty early on,'' a longtime NFL agent said. "To get a short-term result, meaning a trade, certain methods may be more effective than others, and going public and to the media like they're doing is always one of them. However, for the long-term development of your quarterback mentally, it's debatable whether that method is helpful. It could backfire on them.''In case of McNair and Favre, of course, both had a great deal of initial success with their new teams, but it didn't last long. McNair retired after an injury-plagued 2007 season, his second in Baltimore, and Favre re-retired this offseason, after his one roller-coaster year in New York. If Cutler and Cook get their wish from Denver, their gambit better not wind up being described over time as having backfired. Some divorces are a mistake in retrospect, but it's too early to judge whether there will be any potential winners if the breakup of Cutler and the Broncos comes to pass.If Cutler does get to the trade market this offseason, the methods Cook used to land him there may be quickly forgotten or overlooked. As one NFL source reminded me:"If you're Cutler, you know you're young, you're good, and you've got a good arm,'' he said. "You're banking on 31 other teams. Thirty of them might think you're a knucklehead, but it only takes one team to take the contrarian view and think they're smarter than anyone else and want to prove it by trading for you. Young quarterbacks are always going to get another chance, and the benefit of the doubt.''In Denver at the moment, there's no short supply of doubt on any number of fronts. We don't know yet if or how the Broncos' Cutler saga will end, but there are chapters in this story that have grown quite familiar. Comments


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"A new law which will subject all films entering Uganda to censorship has been suggested by Member of Parliament Sarah Wasike Mwebaza, who has appealed to government to institute a special regulatory body to check and regulate films and the content of movies imported into the country. 'The regulation of the content of especially Nigerian movies will help rid the country of harmful practices like child sacrifices, witch craft, violence and kidnaps among others which negatively influence morals for Ugandans' she argued."
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Teenager wins $109MILLION lawsuit after 90 percent of her skin falls off and she goes blind from allergic reaction to Children's Motrin
- Samantha Reckis was given Children's Motrin to treat fever when she was seven years old
- However, quickly developed Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis, which caused 90 percent of her skin to fall off; she also lost her vision
- Jury awarded her and her parents $63million; if trial judge approves ruling, they could get $109million, which includes interest
A teenager who lost most of her skin and her vision in a horrifying adverse reaction to Children's Motrin has on Wednesday won $109million from the drug's manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson.
Samantha Reckis, who was only seven years old when she took the children's ibuprofen to combat a fever, suffered a rare but potentially fatal side effect that caused her to go blind and 90 percent of her skin to fall off.
In total, the Plymouth, Massachusetts Superior Court jury ruled that Ms Reckis and her parents should be awarded at total of $109million by Johnson & Johnson and its subsidy McNeil-PPC Inc, including interest.
Horrific: Samantha Reckis was only seven years old when she took children's ibuprofen to combat a fever and suffered a rare side effect that caused her to go blind and 90 percent of her skin to fall off
Settlement: Samantha Reckis, pictured before her horrific health scare, lost 90 percent of her skin, as well as her vision; a jury today awarded her $50million
The jury found that Ms Reckis developed Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis after taking the Children's Motrin when she was seven.
Windfall: The jury awarded Richard Reckis, Samantha's father, $6.5million, and another $6.5million to her mother
The condition, while rare, is a severe allergic reaction to medications such as barbiturates, penicillins, and sulphonamides, and causes the top layer of skin – the epidermis- to detach from the lower layers.
As many as 40 percent of people diagnosed with the illness die of complications from infection.
According to news reports at the time, Ms Reckis had to undergo 19 surgeries at the time of the 2003 accident.
Family attorney Bradley Henry told the Boston Globe that Ms Reckis' condition was excruciating.
'It's like having your skin burned off of you,' he told the paper. 'Imagine your worst sunburn times 1,000. It's an absolutely devastating condition.'
He also said that the bottle of Children's Motrin only had a small technical warning on the bottle that didn't warn consumers of potential adverse side-effects.
Terrible Reaction: Family attorney Bradley Henry said that Ms Reckis' condition was excruciating and is like 'having your skin burned off of you' he said
Safe: Ms Reckis took Children's Motrin when she was seven; manufacturer Johnson & Johnson said that she suffered a tragedy but disagrees with the jury's verdict and is 'considering additional legal options'
A spokeswoman for New Brunswick, New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson Services Inc. told the Associated Press that the girl's family has suffered a tragedy but the company disagrees with the verdict and is 'considering additional legal options.'
Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis is a rare but severe allergic reaction to medications such as barbiturates, penicillins, and sulphonamides, and causes the top layer of skin – the epidermis- to detach from the lower layers.
It most severely affects mucous membranes, including the eyes and mouth.
As many as 40 percent of people diagnosed with the illness die of complications from infection.
The company said in a statement: 'Children's Motrin (ibuprofen), when used as directed, is a safe and effective treatment option for minor aches and pains and fever and we believe the medicine is labelled appropriately.'
Elisabeth Gravel, who was married to Ms Reckis' father, Richard, from the late 1970s until the mid-80s told MailOnline that the massive settlement announcement came as quite a shock for her.
She had one daughter, Meaghan, with him; the girls are half-sisters.
'I'm finding this to be a difficult situation,' she said, speaking to MailOnline from her home in Plymouth. 'My daughter was very involved with Samantha.'
Ms Gravel, 59, said that she worries about how Mr Reckis, who is listed on his Facebook profile as self-employed, will handle the landfall sum.
Samantha Reckis was awarded $50million, while both parents were awarded $6.5million by the jury, the Globe reported. But the trial judge still must review the sums. If the judge rules in their favor, the family could get up to $109million, including interest.
'I'm not so sure that Richard is going to allocate his portion of the funds for her,' Ms Gravel told MailOnline.
Politics aside, Ms Gravel said that Ms Reckis' brush with death has deeply impacted the family. 'She was a nice child, she was cute. When this occurred, it was devastating,' she said.
'We saw (Samantha) being brought into the hospital wrapped in plastic because all of her body was burned. This has impacted the whole family for more than a decade.'
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Aug 19, 1997
|Filing date
|Sep 11, 1996
|Priority date
|Sep 18, 1995
|Fee status
|Also published as
|Publication number
|Matthew A. Cox, Alan J. Ward, Michael P. Jordan
|Original Assignee
|Morton International, Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (9), Referenced by (6), Classifications (13), Legal Events (6)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This is a divisional of co-pending application Ser. No. 08/529,824 filed on Sep. 18, 1995.
This invention relates in general to inflatable vehicle occupant restraint systems, also known as air bag restraint systems. More particularly, the invention relates to a novel and improved filter construction for an inflator of such a system and an inflator module employing such a filter construction, and a method of making such a filter.
Inflator modules for air bag restraint systems of the pyrotechnic type typically include a housing which contains a pyrotechnic igniting charge and a pyrotechnic gas generating material. Usually, separate sections or chambers are provided respectively for the igniting charge and the gas generating material. The housing defines internal ports for the combustion gases of the igniting charge to contact the gas generating material, causing a reaction to produce a larger quantity of gas. Cooperatively, the housing includes a number of exit ports for allowing the generated gas to pass into and inflate an inflatable cushion.
Commonly, the gas generating material produces a relatively high temperature gas which contains a quantity of particulate material. Accordingly, it is common to filter the gas before it passes through the housing ports and into the inflatable cushion, both to remove the particulate material and to cool the gas somewhat.
For driver side air bags, the housing, as well as the inflatable cushion, are typically located in the steering wheel, and typically, the housing is formed as a short cylinder with its longitudinal axis parallel to the axis of rotation of the steering wheel. Passenger side air bags usually employ a cushion of larger volume, and commonly more space is provided for the mounting of the inflator than in the case of the driver side air bag mounted in the steering wheel. Thus, a passenger side inflator housing is typically formed as a relatively elongated cylinder which may be somewhat smaller in diameter than a driver side inflator but provides additional volume through its increased axial length for accommodating additional gas generating material.
In the case of a driver side inflator, the gas exit ports for delivering gas to the inflatable cushion may be placed either in a radial arrangement or an axial arrangement. In axial designs, the ports are located on the upper longitudinal end of the cylindrical inflator housing, whereas in radial designs, the ports are located on the radially outer face of the cylindrical inflator housing. The present invention relates to the latter or radial design.
In the radial arrangement, the filter is generally a tubular member located radially inwardly of the housing exit ports. In the past, the filter has been constructed as a composite filter structure having a number of layers of filtering or other materials which are assembled to provide the composite filter unit. However, the present invention provides a much simpler filter employing a unitary, integrally formed ceramic filter element of a generally tubular form. The filter element may be formed from, but is not limited to, ceramic, powdered metal, metal fiber, or a combination of two or more of these porous, relatively brittle materials.
In order to cause the flow of gas through as large an area of the filter as possible so as to achieve both efficient filtering and maximum gas flow, it is often desirable to have a plenum space between the filter and the inner wall of the inflator housing. However, in the case of a unitary filter, the outer peripheral wall of the filter will lack external circumferential or radial support, by virtue of being spaced apart from the inner wall of the housing rather than being placed thereagainst. Generally speaking, the unsupported tubular filter element will experience hoop stress upon the rapid generation of gas and resultant gas pressure exerted radially outwardly on the filter. Lack of radial external support can result in tensile failure of the generally tubular or ring-like filter due to this tensile hoop stress.
A second type of air bag system of the so-called hybrid/blowdown design as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,290,060 employs a somewhat simpler pyrotechnic igniter structure in connection with a sealed tube of gas (usually argon) which is coupled to the inflatable cushion. The igniter member serves to dislodge a seal from the tube of gas and allow the gas to rapidly fill the inflatable cushion. While filters are presently not employed in this latter type of design, a filter in accordance with the invention could be so employed if desired.
Accordingly, it is an object of the invention to provide a novel and improved filter for an inflatable vehicle occupant restraint module.
Another object is to provide such a filter which is relatively simple and inexpensive to construct and assemble with the inflator module and yet highly reliable in operation.
A further object is to provide such a filter employing a unitary filter element formed from ceramic, powdered metal, metal fiber, or a combination of two or more of these materials.
A related object is to provide a method for constructing a filter in accordance with the foregoing objects.
A further related object is to provide an inflator module employing a filter of the foregoing type, in which a plenum is formed between the filter element and inflator housing exit ports and yet the filter element is protected against the effects of hoop stress.
Briefly, and in accordance with the foregoing objects, the invention provides a filter comprising a tubular filter element having a generally cylindrical interior surface and a generally cylindrical outer surface having a predetermined diameter and axial length and spaced radially outwardly from said inner surface, and a tubular support member surrounding said outer surface, said support member being of an axial length equal to at least a major portion of the axial length of said outer surface and having an inner diameter substantially similar to the diameter of said outer surface for close surrounding engagement therewith, said support member having a plurality of through openings.
In accordance with another aspect of the invention there is provided an inflatable vehicle occupant restraint system inflator module comprising a cylindrical housing having generally circular top and bottom walls and a tubular side wall extending therebetween, said walls defining a chamber therein; a tubular filter located within said chamber and having an outer surface in proximity to an inner surface of said side wall; said filter comprising a tubular filter element having a generally cylindrical inner surface and a generally cylindrical outer surface of a predetermined diameter and axial length and spaced radially outwardly from said inner surface, and a tubular metal support member surrounding said outer surface of said filter element, said support member being of an axial length equal to at least a major portion of the axial length of said outer surface of said filter element and having an inner diameter substantially similar to the diameter of said outer surface of said filter element for close surrounding engagement therewith, said support member having a plurality of through openings, and an outer surface of said support member comprising an outer surface of the filter.
In accordance with yet a further aspect of the invention there is provided a method of forming a filter for an inflatable vehicle occupant restraint module, said method comprising the steps of: providing a tubular filter element having a generally cylindrical inner surface and a generally cylindrical outer surface having a given diameter and axial length and spaced radially outwardly from said inner surface; providing a tubular support member of an axial length equal to at least a major portion of the predetermined axial length of said outer surface and having an inner diameter substantially similar to the diameter of said outer surface; and engaging said support member in close circumferential supporting engagement about said filter element outer surface.
The features of the present invention which are believed to be novel are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The organization and manner of operation of the invention, together with further objects and advantages thereof, may best be understood by reference to the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings in which like reference numerals identify like elements, and in which:
FIG. 1 is a section in elevation through an inflator housing employing a filter in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 2 is a side elevation of a filter in accordance with the invention; and
FIG. 3 is a top plan view of the filter of FIG. 2.
Referring now to the drawings, and initially to FIG. 1, there is illustrated an inflator 10 which utilizes a filter 12 constructed in accordance with the invention. In the illustrated embodiment, a relatively short, cylindrical inflator 10 is shown, suitable for use in a driver's side air bag restraint system mounted to a steering wheel (not shown). However, it will be understood that the invention is also useful in connection with an inflator formed as a somewhat elongated cylinder for use with a passenger's side air bag restraint system.
In the illustrated embodiment, the inflator 10 includes a housing 14 which has a generally circular bottom wall 16 and a generally cylindrical outer peripheral wall 18. Spaced radially inwardly of the outer peripheral wall 18 is a generally cylindrical wall 20. The walls 18 and 20 extend from a circular upper wall 24. Normally, the upper wall 24 and the two cylindrical walls 18 and 20 are integrally formed as a unit, with such a combined unit being often referred to as a diffuser. This unit or diffuser is then connected to the bottom wall 16, typically by welding. It will be seen that the bottom wall 16 has a pair of generally annular, short, upwardly extending surfaces or rings which respectively align with and engage the outer wall 18 and inner wall 20.
The walls 18 and 20 define a pair of chambers. Interiorally of the inner wall 20 there is formed a generally cylindrical ignition chamber 28 which will be partially filled with an ignition material 30 and which also accommodates an initiator or squib 32. Radially surrounding the wall 20 and inside of the outer wall 18 is a second, generally annular generator cheer 34 which receives a volume of pyrotechnic gas generant material 36. This material may have various compositions such as an azide, and may be in many forms, a tablet form being here partially illustrated for purposes of description. It will be understood that in practice the tablets 36 substantially fill the chamber 34. The inner wall 20 includes a plurality of through openings or ignition ports 38 which extend between the ignition and generator chambers 28, 34 to permit the hot gases from the ignition material 30 to flow into the generator chamber 34 and cause the generant material 36 to generate an inflating gas.
The outer wall 18 is provided with a plurality of through openings or gas exit ports 40 through which the generated inflation gases exit to fill the inflatable cushion or air bag (not shown) which is in generally surrounding relation to the diffuser. Spaced radially outwardly of the gas generant 36 and radially inwardly of the outer wall 18 is a generally annular or tubular filter 50. The filter 50 is provided generally in order to prevent particulate matter or slag from the gas generant 36 from reaching the inflatable cushion and also to cool the gases somewhat prior to their admission to the inflatable cushion. The filter 50 is constructed in accordance with the invention, as will be more fully described hereinbelow.
In the illustrated embodiment, the outermost surface of the filter 50 is spaced radially inwardly of the inner surface of the wall 18, to form or define a plenum chamber 52 therebetween. This plenum cheer or space 52 between the filter and the inner surface of the inflator housing outer wall 18 helps to cause the gas to flow through as large an area of the filter as possible increasing gas flow therethrough and improving filter efficiency.
In order to assure that the gas passes through rather than around the filter 50, an additional positioning and sealing member or ring 54, preferably of a resilient sheet metal or like material, is provided. This ring 54 will be seen to embrace a lower edge of the filter 50 and provides a resilient, generally annular angularly outwardly extending skirt portion 56 which is inwardly compressed by, and seals against, the inner surface of wall 18. This skirt 56 also helps to radially center the filter relative to the wall 18 and thus define a substantially uniform radial extent or width of the plenum space or chamber 52. The ring 54 also serves to press an upper edge of the filter 50 against the inner surface of the upper wall 24 thus serving as a seal or closure at the upper end of the filter, such that gas must pass through the filter 50 in order to reach the exit ports 40. Other means for sealing and positioning the filter 50 may be provided without departing from the invention.
In order to secure and protect the gas generant 36 during the assembly and welding of the bottom wall 16 to the diffuser comprising top wall 24 and side walls 18 and 20, there is provided a retainer 58. This retainer 58 is generally annular in form, in the illustrated embodiment having an annular main portion 60 which is generally in the form of a shallow cone. Projecting from opposite ends of this main portion 60 at either edge is an upward turn 62 and then a radially outwardly reverse turn 64. The free edge of the outer reverse turn 64 is made slightly larger than the diameter of the inner surface of outer wall 18, while the diameter of the inner reverse turn is of somewhat smaller diameter than the outer diameter of the wall 20. As such, the retainer 58 may be pressed upwardly to resiliently depress inwardly the respective reverse turned walls 64 thereof, whereupon the latter respectively engage about the outer surface of wall 20 and inner surface of wall 18. Thus, the gas generant 36 may be initially introduced into the chamber 34 and thereupon the retainer pushed into position to retain and cover the generant while the housing bottom wall 16 is assembled with the diffuser comprising the circular wall 24 and cylindrical walls 18 and 20 of the housing.
Referring now also to FIGS. 2 and 3, the filter 50 will be seen to comprise a tubular filter element 70 which has a generally cylindrical inner surface 72 and a generally cylindrical outer surface 74 which is parallel and spaced radially outwardly from the inner surface 72. A generally tubular support member 76 circumferentially surrounds and engages the outer surface 74 of the filter element 70. This tubular support member is formed to have an axial height 78 which is at least equal to a major part of the axial height 75 of the outer surface 74 of the filter element 70. The inner diameter of the support member 76 is substantially similar to the diameter of the outer surface 74 of the filter element for close surrounding supportive engagement therewith.
The support member 76 will be seen to have a plurality of through openings 80. Preferably, the filter element 70 is constructed as a unitary, integrally formed ceramic member, that is, constructed in a single piece. This unitary filter may be formed from ceramic, powdered metal, metal fiber, or any combination of two or more of these porous, relatively brittle materials. Preferably the support member is a metal material. The through openings 80 in the support member may be of a wide range of sizes. However, these are generally sized so as to permit gas flow through the support member at a rate substantially consistent with the rate of gas flow through the filter element 70 (that is, so as to not significantly reduce the flow) while yet maintaining sufficient unperforated surface area of the support element 76 to provide support of the filter element in such a manner as to counteract hoop stress in the filter element 70. The construction of the support member may take any form consistent with this function, namely to permit gas flow relatively freely therethrough while providing support to counteract hoop stress in the unitary filter element 70. It will be appreciated that such hoop stress will occur as a result of the radially outward pressure exerted on the filter element 70 by the gases being filtered through the filter element 70.
Accordingly, the support member 76 may be constructed as a tube of perforated metal, or may be formed from a wire screen mesh material, or may be formed from an expanded metal material.
In order to assure, as desired, resistance to hoop stress is imparted to the filter element 70 by the support member 76, there may be provided a press fit therebetween such that the support member 76 actually applies radially inward compressive forces to the outer surface 74 of the filter element 70. One method of accomplishing this is to size the support member such that its inner diameter is about the same as the outer diameter 74 of the filter element. Then, in order to assemble the support member 76 about the filter element, the support member 76 is heated to cause it to expand somewhat, and thereupon the heated and expanded support member is engaged about the filter member outer surface 74, then the support member cools and contracts somewhat thereby producing a radially inward compressive force on the filter element 70 about its outer surface 74.
In an alternate form of construction, it is contemplated that the support member 76 could in some cases function as the radially outer wall of the inflator housing 14, eliminating the need for the outer wall 18.
While particular embodiments of the invention have been shown and described in detail, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that changes and modifications of the present invention, in its various aspects, may be made without departing from the invention in its broader aspect, some of which changes and modifications being matters of routine engineering or design, and others being apparent only after study. As such, the scope of the invention should not be limited by the particular embodiments and specific constructions described herein but should be defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof. Accordingly, the aim in the appended claims is to cover all such changes and modifications as fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention.
|Cited Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Dec 18, 1990
|Feb 11, 1992
|Trw Inc.
|Method of assembling an inflator for a vehicle occupant restraint
|May 1, 1991
|Apr 20, 1993
|Trw Inc.
|Sep 6, 1991
|Jun 1, 1993
|Nippon Oil And Fats Co., Ltd.
|Gas generating device
|Dec 14, 1992
|Mar 1, 1994
|Morton International, Inc.
|Hybrid gas generator for air bag inflatable restraint systems
|Jan 25, 1993
|May 3, 1994
|Dynamit Nobel Aktiengesellschaft
|Filter device for filtering a gas flow
|Jul 26, 1994
|Nov 14, 1995
|Morton International, Inc.
|Air bag inflator
|Jul 26, 1994
|Apr 2, 1996
|Morton International, Inc.
|Varying permeability filter for airbag inflator
|Apr 26, 1994
|Jul 2, 1996
|Breed Automotive Technology, Inc.
|Inflator assembly
|Apr 2, 1993
|Oct 28, 1993
|Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.
|Air bag with inflatable ribs
|Citing Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Aug 9, 2005
|Jan 19, 2010
|Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.
|Gas generator for air bag
|Oct 30, 2009
|Dec 11, 2012
|Autoliv Asp, Inc.
|Airbag inflator
|Aug 4, 2005
|May 26, 2010
|Gas generator for air bag
|Aug 30, 2006
|Jan 20, 2010
|Gas generator
|Aug 4, 2005
|May 30, 2007
|Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.
|Gas generating device for air bag
|Aug 4, 2005
|Feb 16, 2006
|Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.
|Gas generating device for air bag
|U.S. Classification
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Nov 16, 1998
Owner name: AUTOLIV ASP, INC, UTAH
Free format text: MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME;ASSIGNOR:MORTON INTERNATIONAL, INC;REEL/FRAME:009866/0350
Effective date: 19970429
|Jan 2, 2001
|Fee payment
Year of fee payment: 4
|Mar 13, 2001
|Maintenance fee reminder mailed
|Mar 9, 2005
|Maintenance fee reminder mailed
|Aug 19, 2005
|Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees
|Oct 18, 2005
|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
Effective date: 20050819


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