US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 24 for "Vehicle passenger protecting device having a side airbag and a curtain airbag with an enlarged inflating portion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,407, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle passenger protecting device having a side airbag and a curtain airbag with an enlarged inflating portion" was invented by Mitsuyoshi Ohno (Miyoshi, Japan), Akira Kaneko (Toyota, Japan) and Tatsuya Hashido (Aichi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle passenger protecting device includes: a side airbag installed in a side portion at an outer side of a seatback of a vehicle seat, and inflating and expanding toward an outer side of a passenger seated on the vehicle seat due to gas being supplied at a time of a side collision of a vehicle...