ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,920, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).
"Vehicular side airbag device" was invented by Yuto Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tsutomu Sakurai (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airbag module includes an airbag cushion in a bag shape and in a prescribed rolled or folded storage configuration and an inflator that supplies gas to the airbag cushion. The airbag cushion includes: a main chamber that expands and deploys from a side frame to a side of an occupant seated in a vehicle seat, a sub chamber that expands and deploys protruding from the main chamber to the side of the occupa...