US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 15 for "Ceiling mounted airbag device and passenger restraint device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,457, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Ceiling mounted airbag device and passenger restraint device" was invented by Toshiki Iwama (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceiling mounted airbag device has an airbag including a first chamber at a ceiling of a vehicle cabin and configured to rupture the ceiling during a vehicle head-on collision and to be expanded and deployed by a gas at a front side of a passenger seated in a vehicle seat, and the airbag including a second chamber configured to be expanded and deployed toward the passenger by a gas supplied from the first chamber; and...