US Patent Issued to SUBARU on May 12 for "Vehicle door structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,519, issued on May 12, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle door structure" was invented by Kuniyoshi Tsushima (Tokyo) and Chikara Yamashita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle door structure includes a door sash part and a sash retainer. A paint sealer is applied to a periphery of a vehicle lower side of the sash retainer continuously without a gap from an inner side to an outer side in a vehicle width direction through a vehicle lower portion so as to close a space between the sash retainer and the door sash part. The door sash part has a region that is lower than an application upper end of the paint sealer, t...