US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 13 for "Airbag device and passenger protection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,776, issued on May 13, 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 has an airbag. The airbag has a front-rear chamber and an airbag main body. The front-rear chamber has a left and right pair of front-rear extending portions that pass by respective left and right sides of a head of a passenger and inflate and deploy toward the seat front side, and...