US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Aug. 18 for "Structural member and method of manufacturing structural member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,335, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Structural member and method of manufacturing structural member" was invented by Hiroyuki Watanabe (Saitama, Japan) and Kimitoshi Fujishita (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structural member includes: a wall including a first side wall and a second side wall; a space surrounded by the wall; and a plurality of ribs provided in the space and coupling the first side wall and the second side wall, wherein the plurality of ribs include: a plurality of columnar first ribs which couple the first side wall and the second side wall, a plurality of columnar ...