ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,783, issued on June 24, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).
"Passenger seat airbag device" was invented by Yuka Miura (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airbag device for protecting an occupant in a passenger seat of a vehicle, is stowed in the instrument panel, and is provided with an inflator that generates expansion gas and an airbag for restraining the occupant that expands and deploys from the instrument panel towards the occupant side based on the gas discharged from the inflator. The airbag is formed of woven cloth with mutually orthogonal warp thread and weft thread. The airbag includes ...