ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,368, issued on April 15, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).
"Airbag device for pedestrian" was invented by Akifumi Hanawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Tamura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Satoshi Ito (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pedestrian airbag device includes an airbag cushion that expands and deploys from below the front hood toward the windshield. The airbag cushion has a main chamber covering at least the lower part of the windshield, a pillar chamber covering the A-pillar, provided at both ends of the main chamber in the vehicle width direction, a compartment wall partitioning the main chamb...