ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,542, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle side sill structure" was invented by Atsushi Hasegawa (Saitama, Japan), Hitomi Yamada (Saitama, Japan) and Yumi Saito (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A side sill 3 includes an inner panel 12, an outer panel 13, and a reinforcement member 11 arranged in a closed section formed by bonding the inner panel 12 and the outer panel 13. The reinforcement member 11 includes a first reinforcement member 26 bonded to the outer panel 13 and a second reinforcement member 27 bonded to the inner panel 12. The first reinforcement member 26 includes a concave part 28...