Sentence examples for inflater from inspiring English sources

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The company has also received a grant from the Luxembourg government to support research there on a similar inflater for consumer tires.

Mr. Hock, the former member of Mr. Taylor's team, said he recalled carrying out testing on a mock ammonium nitrate inflater that produced explosive results that left his team shaken.

Takata's practice of manipulating airbag test results dates to at least 2000, just as the company began to introduce a new type of inflater.

And it was unclear from the emails whether the data in this instance was directly related to propellant problems or inflater fragmentation, she said.

When that happens, the ammonium nitrate can combust violently, causing the propellant's metal casing, called an inflater, to overpressurize and rupture.

Honda said on Thursday that it was not aware of any injuries related to the defect, which involves the inflaters on passenger-side air bags.

Last week, the two companies alerted the safety agency that three of the inflaters tested — all from RAV-4 sport utility vehicles — had ruptured.

"We knew that G.M. was getting low-cost inflaters from others," said Chris Hock, a former member of Mr. Taylor's team who left Autoliv in April.

To make the inflaters safe, TRW had adopted several practices, according to Mr. Blomquist's presentation and a spokesman at TRW.

Takata's airbag inflaters, which can overpressurize and explode when they deploy, shooting metal shards at passengers, have been linked to 10 deaths, including one last month, and over 100 injuries.