US Patent Issued to TOYODA GOSEI on Sept. 15 for "Vehicle exterior component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,614, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TOYODA GOSEI Co. LTD. (Aichi-Pref., Japan).

"Vehicle exterior component" was invented by Shunsuke Aoyama (Kiyosu, Japan), Keigo Kondo (Kiyosu, Japan) and Koji Okumura (Kiyosu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle exterior component includes a cover, a housing, a flat substrate, a light emitter, and a lens. The cover and the housing are located frontward from a radar device in an electromagnetic wave transmission direction of the radar device. The radar device is installed in a vehicle. The flat substrate is arranged inside the housing. The light emitter is arranged on the substrate....