ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,579, issued on June 17, was assigned to DAICEL Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Airbag device and gas generator" was invented by Kenji Fukumoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airbag device includes a gas generator including an ignition device, a gas generating agent and a housing and provided with a gas discharge port, a shielding member covering an outside of the housing and moving to a shielding position located in a discharge direction of a combustion gas from the gas discharge port and a non-shielding position not located in the discharge direction of the combustion gas from the gas discharge port, an elastic member disposed betw...