ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,174, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).
"Battery case for vehicle" was invented by Masatoshi Yoshida (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The battery case includes a frame body having a rectangular frame shape and a support plate provided at a lower portion of the frame body and supporting the battery. Each of the pair of side frames includes a base portion constituting an inner peripheral surface of the frame body and an inner protruding portion protruding inward in the vehicle width direction from a lower end of the base portion, and the support plate is supported on the inner protruding portion....