US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on Oct. 6 for "Vehicle body structure, and method for designing vehicle body structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,854, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle body structure, and method for designing vehicle body structure" was invented by Masahiko Abe (Tokyo), Atsushi Ono (Tokyo), Shin Toyokawa (Tokyo) and Ko Satake (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle body 1 includes a center pillar 4 and a side sill 5. A front portion 5a and a rear portion 5b of the side sill 5 are restricted from moving inward in a width direction at a front restricting position X2F and a rear restricting position X2R, respectively. The center pillar 4 includes an overlapping portion 22 that covers an external surface of the side sill...