US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on Jan. 20 for "Vehicle-body front structure including side frame protrusions" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,346, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle-body front structure including side frame protrusions" was invented by Kota Yoshida (Hiroshima, Japan), Taiki Yotsuyanagi (Hiroshima, Japan) and Satoshi Nakamura (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-body front structure includes a front-side battery frame which is provided in a front of the battery casing 10a pair of left and right side frames which extend from the front-side battery frame toward vehicle front to be positioned on vehicle-width-direction outer sides toward front, a pair of left and right impact absorption membe...