US Patent Issued to TOYODA GOSEI on July 14 for "Airbag device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,300, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYODA GOSEI Co. LTD. (Aichi-pref., Japan).

"Airbag device" was invented by Takuya Hiraiwa (Kiyosu, Japan), Hiromi Tamai (Kiyosu, Japan), Nobuya Nakakura (Kiyosu, Japan) and Shun Ito (Kiyosu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airbag device mounted on a vehicle includes: an airbag that is folded and accommodated, inflated by an inflation gas, and receives the vehicle's occupant; an inflator that discharges the inflation gas; a coupling member having one end portion coupled to the airbag; an actuator that controls the airbag's inflated state by switching between holding and releasing the ot...