US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on April 7 for "Vehicle-body front structure with side frame support" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,823, issued on April 7, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle-body front structure with side frame support" was invented by Kota Yoshida (Hiroshima, Japan), Taiki Yotsuyanagi (Hiroshima, Japan), Takehiro Kamei (Hiroshima, Japan), Satoshi Nakamura (Hiroshima, Japan) and Takayuki Kimura (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-body front structure for an electric vehicle includes a front-side battery frame which extends in a vehicle width direction, a pair of left and right side frames which extend from the front-side battery frame to a vehicle front to be positioned on vehicle-width-direction...