ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,406, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYODA IRON WORKS Co. LTD. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle structural member" was invented by Akiyoshi Yamamoto (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A press-formed vehicle structural member includes: a top wall; a pair of lateral walls extending from opposite edges of the top wall in a broadening manner; and a pair of flanges bending outwardly from edges of the lateral walls, wherein the vehicle structural member has a hat-shaped cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the vehicle structural member. In some embodiments, a bending angle between the lateral walls and the f...