ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,321, issued on April 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Defroster interior structure" was invented by Yu Nakashima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A defroster interior structure includes a defroster outlet blowing out air toward a side glass provided on a door of a vehicle. The door includes the side glass and a door panel provided below the side glass. The defroster outlet is disposed at a position where a side surface of an instrument panel and the door panel overlap each other in a vehicle width direction. The side surface and the door panel form a gap through which an airflow blown out from the defroster ou...