US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 1 for "Vehicle body front construction" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,587, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle body front construction" was invented by Masaki Mori (Tokyo), Tetsuya Morino (Tokyo) and Momoka Fujii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle body front construction includes: a front bumper including an opening; an air guide member disposed behind the front bumper and configured to guide rearward outside air taken from the opening; and a sensor attached to the front bumper; and a sensor protection member disposed between the sensor and the air guide member. The sensor protection member includes: a protection wall extending in a width direction of ...