ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,138, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Mazda Motor Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Vehicle front structure" was invented by Hiroto Ichikawa (Aki-gun, Japan), Yasushi Ishikawa (Aki-gun, Japan), Hiroshi Suemura (Aki-gun, Japan), Shamit Ramakrishnan (Aki-gun, Japan) and Hiroyuki Saiki (Aki-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To enhance safety of an occupant by suppressing rearward movement of an auxiliary machine during a vehicle frontal collision, a front structure of a vehicle includes an inverter arranged in a compartment in a front portion of the vehicle, and a brake booster arranged at a position that is behind the inverter and o...