ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,784, issued on June 24.
"Airbag device and vehicle seat" was invented by Takayuki Shimizu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Atsushi Nakashima (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is an airbag device installed in a vehicle seat having a seat cushion forming the seat surface and a seatback forming the backrest, a pair of inflators stowed in the left and right side portions of said seatback and generating expansion gas, and an airbag stowed in said seatback in a rolled or folded state and deployed by the expansion gas released from said inflators. The airbag is configured to include a pair of left and right side cha...