US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 27 for "Occupant restraint device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,965, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Occupant restraint device for vehicle" was invented by Daiki Furukawa (Toyota, Japan), Katsuya Shimazu (Toyota, Japan), Mitsuyoshi Ohno (Miyoshi, 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 three-point seatbelt device, a front impact airbag and a belt backing airbag. The three-point seatbelt device restrains the occupant, who is sitting on a vehicle seat, at the vehicle seat. The front impact airbag inflates and expands from a vehicle front side toward the occupant when gas is...