US Patent Issued to ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY on May 27 for "Airbag module, method for exchanging a gas generator of an airbag module, and method for producing an airbag module" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,863, issued on May 27, was assigned to ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH (Alfdorf, Germany).

"Airbag module, method for exchanging a gas generator of an airbag module, and method for producing an airbag module" was invented by Kalus Bernhard (Spraitbach, Germany), Marc Elstner (Mutlangen, Germany), Werner Freisler (Schwabisch Gmund, Germany) and Nico Maier (Alfdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention describes an airbag module (10), specifically a knee airbag module, comprising at least a module housing (12), an airbag, specifically a knee airbag, and an inflator (16), as well as a holding element (14), the holding element...