US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Oct. 27 for "Joint structure of a vehicle body" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,051, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Joint structure of a vehicle body" was invented by Suin Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Tae Han Kang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joint structure of a vehicle body includes: a fixation bar disposed at a rear end of a driving module; a guide pin disposed at a central portion of the fixation bar and protruding to a space module; a pair of extension pins disposed on edge portions of the fixation bar and protruding to the space module; and a guide slot that is recessed from an inner cen...