Takata patent history shows decades spent seeking safer airbags

By:

Jeff Green and Margaret Cronin Fisk

December 10, 2014 05:00 AM

DETROIT (Bloomberg) -- Airbag patents show researchers probed ways to make the devices more durable and the explosive propellant inside them more stable for decades before Takata Corp. products designed to save lives started killing people.

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