ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,458, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Cushion airbag device" was invented by Kenichiro Koshizako (Nagoya, Japan), Jiro Ohachi (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Takuma Kawai (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cushion airbag device is provided in a lower part of a seat cushion in a vehicle seat, and includes a cushion airbag inflated in a vertical direction by being supplied with gas from a pressure accumulation tank, a control valve provided in a first pipe communicating the cushion airbag and the pressure accumulation tank and adjusting an internal pressure of the cushion airbag, an exhaust...