ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,268, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Front center airbag device for vehicle" was invented by Takuma Kawai (Okazaki, Japan) and Jiro Ohachi (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The front center airbag device for a vehicle includes a front center airbag mounted on an inner side in a vehicle width direction in a seatback of a vehicle seat serving as a driver's seat and inflated and deployed by supplying gas from the inflator, wherein the front center airbag is configured such that when a side collision of the vehicle is on the driver's seat side, a deployment region in the vehicle ...