US Patent Issued to TORAY INDUSTRIES on Feb. 11 for "Base fabric for airbag, manufacturing method for base fabric for airbag, and airbag" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,057, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).

"Base fabric for airbag, manufacturing method for base fabric for airbag, and airbag" was invented by Akira Tsujie (Osaka, Japan) and Taiki Hosaka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base fabric for an airbag has a puncture load equal to or more than 6.0 N, wherein values obtained by dividing a bending stiffness (method A of JIS L 1096(2010)8.21) in each of a warp direction and a weft direction by a cover factor are equal to or less than 0.030 mm."

The patent was filed on Feb. 21, 2020, under Application No. 17/435,735.

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