US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Jan. 27 for "Occupant protection apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,037, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Occupant protection apparatus" was invented by Shohei Daimaru (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occupant protection apparatus, to be applied to a vehicle, includes a contact estimator, a contact detector, an irreversible restrainer, and a control processor. The irreversible restrainer irreversibly restrains an occupant of the vehicle. The control processor controls an operation of the irreversible restrainer based on a signal from the contact estimator or the contact detector. The contact detector includes first and second contact detection units that detect the co...