US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Occupant restraint device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,171, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Occupant restraint device for vehicle" was invented by Mitsuyoshi Ohno (Miyoshi, Japan), Katsuya Shimazu (Toyota, Japan), Daiki Furukawa (Toyota, Japan) and Kaname Tanaka (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The occupant restraint device for a vehicle includes a seatbelt, which restrains an occupant P sitting on a vehicle seat at the vehicle seat, and a belt backing airbag. When gas is supplied to the belt backing airbag from an inflator at a time of frontal collision of the vehicle, the belt backing airbag inflates and expands between at least the...