US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on July 28 for "Upper vehicle-body structure of vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,946, issued on July 28, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Upper vehicle-body structure of vehicle" was invented by Makoto Morimoto (Aki-gun, Japan), Daisuke Kiyoshita (Aki-gun, Japan), Shuang Gao (Aki-gun, Japan) and Kohichi Tanimoto (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upper end portion of a center pillar reinforcement is fixed to a roof rail. The roof rail comprises a protrusion portion protruding in a vehicle width direction and extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction. The protrusion portion comprises a fixation portion where the upper end portion is fixed and a terminal end portion separate...