US Patent Issued to Autoliv Development on April 22 for "Side airbag device and method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,730, issued on April 22, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Side airbag device and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Yuto Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takaki Shibuya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A side airbag device stowed in a side part of a vehicle seat and includes: an airbag for restraining an occupant by expanding and deploying; and an inflator provided in a side wall part of a seat frame in the vehicle width direction extending in the vehicle traveling direction when a horizontal cross section of the vehicle seat is viewed from above, and that supplies expansion gas...