US Patent Issued to Autoliv Development on July 7 for "Airbag device provided to steering wheel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,631, issued on July 7, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Airbag device provided to steering wheel" was invented by Sumit Kumar (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Abe (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryotaro Ishida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Keisuke Honma (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an airbag device provided in a steering wheel, which enables an airbag module to be made smaller so as to be compatible with a steering wheel having a smaller center pad than conventional ones. The airbag device includes an airbag module containing an airbag cushion and a cylindrical inflator that supplies inflator gas to the ...