US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 31 for "Vehicle airbag device and passenger protection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,710, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Vehicle airbag device and passenger protection device" was invented by Toshiki Iwama (Toyota, Japan), Mitsuyoshi Ohno (Miyoshi, Japan), Yu Suzuki (Nagoya, Japan) and Tatsuya Hashido (Nishikasugai-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A left-right pair of rear tethers is configured such that one-end portions thereof are anchored to a left-right pair of front-rear extension portions, other-end portions thereof are anchored to a seatback or to the vehicle body, and during passenger restraint each of a left-right pair of front-rear extension portions i...