US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on Oct. 6 for "Rear vehicle-body structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,856, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Rear vehicle-body structure" was invented by Eiji Kamemoto (Aki-gun, Japan), Kouji Matsushita (Aki-gun, Japan) and Kazutaka Ishikura (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rear vehicle-body structure absorbs an impact from vehicle rear even when an installed amount of the batteries is increased by including a rear side frame which extends in a vehicle front-rear direction, a rear-side cross member which is arranged such that a front portion of the rear side frame abuts the rear-side cross member from vehicle rear, the rear-side cross member extendi...