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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,705, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle front structure" was invented by Yamato Sasano (Tokyo), Takehiro Kondo (Tokyo), Akira Haga (Tokyo) and Takashi Nitta (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle front structure includes: a floor panel, disposed on a lower end side of a vehicle; a side sill, disposed on each side of the floor panel in a vehicle width direction, and extending along a vehicle front-rear direction; a pillar, disposed above the side sill, and extending in a vehicle upper-lower direction; a dash panel, disposed at a front of the side sill and the pillar to be erected upward ...