US Patent Issued to SUBARU on June 23 for "Vehicle-body frame structure" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,197, issued on June 23, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle-body frame structure" was invented by Ryo Kojima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-body frame structure including a floor tunnel includes a cross member floor front and a transmission cross member. The cross member floor front is disposed at a vehicle front end of the floor tunnel and has a vehicle-widthwise cross-sectional shape that includes a first slant, a second slant and a third slant. The first slant extends from the vehicle bottom part toward an inward-and-upward side in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle. The second slant extends from ...