US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Three-dimensional modeled object and method for manufacturing three-dimensional modeled object" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,005, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Three-dimensional modeled object and method for manufacturing three-dimensional modeled object" was invented by Tomohiro Ohno (Seto, Japan), Yumemi Ohkubo (Okazaki, Japan) and Hiroto Maruyama (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional modeled object to be manufactured by additive manufacturing includes a plurality of segments, a hinge structure that couples two adjacent segments among the segments, and a fitting structure including an external fitting portion and an internal fitting portion. The external fitting portion is configur...