US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on June 23 for "Automobile panel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,195, issued on June 23, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Automobile panel" was invented by Yasunori Sawa (Tokyo) and Ryuichi Nishimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automobile panel 1 has a sheet-shaped outer panel 2 and a sheet-shaped inner panel 3, and an interior member 30 arranged in a space S between the inner panel 3 and the outer panel 2. The interior member 30 is an elongated member that extends in a first direction D1 along the outer panel 2, and includes a first end 41 that is one end in the first direction D1, and a second end 42 that is another end. The first end 41 has a first connecting portion 45...