ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,521, issued on March 24, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automobile underbody structure" was invented by Yutaka Mikazuki (Tokyo), Yoshimitsu Yamazaki (Tokyo), Yasunori Ito (Tokyo) and Atsushi Yamazaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automobile underbody structure includes: a plurality of first frame parts; a second frame part; and an impact absorbing member, wherein: the second frame part has a first wall portion and a second wall; the impact absorbing member includes a first beam portion, a second beam portion, and a corrugated plate portion; the corrugated plate portion includes a first diagonal portion, a se...