US Patent Issued to TOYODA GOSEI on May 12 for "Passenger protection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,623, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOYODA GOSEI Co. LTD. (Aichi-pref., Japan).

"Passenger protection device" was invented by Takatoshi Yajima (Aichi, Japan) and Shinji Yamada (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passenger protection device has a seat, a seat belt for restraining a passenger seated on the seat, an airbag disposed on the seat belt in a lap belt which restrains a waist of the passenger seated on the seat while the seat belt is worn, and an inflator disposed close to a lower end of the seat and supplying inflation gas to the airbag. The airbag includes a bag body formed of a flexible sheet body and inflated ...