US Patent Issued to Autoliv Development on July 28 for "Air bag device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,846, issued on July 28, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Air bag device" was invented by Yuto Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tsutomu Sakurai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airbag device in which the deployment behavior of a cushion is stable when expanded and deployed and the cushion does not tilt while restraining an occupant, even in a vehicle in which a console box is lower than the upper surface of a seat cushion or in a vehicle without a console box. The airbag device 1 includes a cushion 2 and an inflator 3 that injects gas to expand the cushion 2. The cushion 2 has a main chamber...