US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Nov. 18 for "Vehicle body upper structure and assembly method of automobile vehicle body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,037, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle body upper structure and assembly method of automobile vehicle body" was invented by Kosaku Tomozawa (Wako, Japan), Yoshikatsu Ota (Wako, Japan) and Masaaki Fujimoto (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle body upper structure includes: roof side rails provided at end portions in a vehicle width direction of a vehicle body upper portion; side outer panels covering vehicle outer side surfaces of the roof side rails; and a roof panel made of a material different from a martial of the roof side rails and provided at a center portion in the vehic...