TOKYO — Takata, the Japanese auto parts maker crippled by vast airbag recalls, filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States and Japan and said it would sell its surviving operations to a Chinese-owned American rival, Key Safety Systems.

The deal, which was announced on Sunday evening in the United States — Monday morning in Japan — seals the fate of the company at the center of the farthest-reaching auto safety crisis in history. Exploding Takata airbags have been linked to at least 14 deaths. Carmakers have recalled nearly 70 million of the company’s airbags in the United States, in 42 million vehicles, as well as millions overseas.

Key Safety Systems, which makes airbags, seatbelts and other auto safety equipment, said it would buy Takata’s factories for about $1.6 billion. Key Safety Systems is based in Michigan but is owned by a company in China, Ningbo Joyson Electronic Corporation.

The deal effectively means the end of Takata, which was established in 1933 and is still controlled by its founding family.