US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on Nov. 3 for "Lower vehicle-body structure of vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,319, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Lower vehicle-body structure of vehicle" was invented by Hikari Hirano (Hiroshima, Japan), Koji Miyamoto (Hiroshima, Japan), Akira Iyoshi (Hiroshima, Japan), Eiji Kamemoto (Hiroshima, Japan) and Ippei Kuroda (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lower vehicle-body structure of a vehicle comprises an outer-side reinforcing member and an inner-side reinforcing member inside a side sill. In the side sill, upper-and-lower ridgelines extending in a longitudinal direction are formed between an outer vertical-wall portion and an outer top-plate portion...