ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,670, issued on March 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, 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 including an airbag that inflates and deploys from a seat rear side of a vehicle seat toward a seat front side via a seat upper side. In an inflated and deployed state, the airbag includes a pair of front-rear chambers extending in a front-rear direction via left and r...