US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Door mirror structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,476, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Door mirror structure" was invented by Kenichi Kageyama (Toyota, Japan), Fumihito Ozeki (Konan, Japan) and Shiyota Umemoto (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door mirror structure includes a door mirror for a vehicle, and an airflow guide provided at an end portion on a vehicle rear side on an upper surface of the door mirror. The airflow guide guides traveling wind such that the traveling wind generated when the vehicle is traveling flows to a vehicle outer side along the airflow guide."

The patent was filed on April 22, 2024, under Applic...