ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,408, issued on April 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Airbag device and passenger protection device" was invented by Mitsuyoshi Ohno (Miyoshi, Japan), Takeshi Yamamoto (Toki, Japan), Toshiki Iwama (Toyota, Japan), Yoshito Kusuhara (Ichinomiya, Japan) and Tsutomu Ishii (Ichinomiya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airbag device includes an airbag that is supplied with gas generated by an inflator during a vehicle collision and that inflates and deploys from a rear side of a vehicle seat toward a front side via an upper side. In an inflated and deployed state, the airbag includes a pair of front-rear cham...