US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on May 19 for "Vehicle battery rotating structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,608, issued on May 19, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle battery rotating structure" was invented by Takehiro Kondo (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Anzai (Tokyo) and Ryoji Tokuda (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle battery rotating structure is provided that allows a battery receptacle to be stably deformed at the time of a head-on collision to rotate a battery. A vehicle battery rotating structure 30 includes: a battery B that faces an engine-mounted part 12; a battery supporting face that is deformable into an inverted-V shape at the time of a head-on collision; a pair of battery locking pieces each of wh...