US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI RAILCAR MANUFACTURING on Aug. 4 for "Railcar bodyshell" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,014, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to KAWASAKI RAILCAR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Railcar bodyshell" was invented by Atsushi Sano (Kobe, Japan), Shinichiro Hata (Kobe, Japan), Yuji Toya (Kobe, Japan), Kazuyoshi Ikushima (Kobe, Japan) and Atsushi Sano (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a railcar bodyshell whose deformation behavior at the time of collision is stable. The railcar bodyshell includes an anti-climber projecting from an end beam outward in a car longitudinal direction. The anti-climber includes a starting point portion that serves as a starting point of bending of the end beam ...