US Patent Issued to NISSAN MOTOR on Sept. 29 for "Hood for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,977, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Hood for vehicle" was invented by Shinichiro Takemoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Amane Shimoji (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hood for a vehicle includes an outer panel that is made of metal and is convex upwardly, an inner panel that is made of metal and is disposed beneath the outer panel, and at least one wall member that is made of plastic and connects a bottom face of the outer panel to a top face of the inner panel. A width of a cross-bridge portion of the inner panel in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle is smaller than a len...