US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 31 for "Engine compartment mounted structure" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,810, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Engine compartment mounted structure" was invented by Kozo Yamamoto (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine compartment mounted structure is provided with an engine mounted in an engine compartment of a vehicle, a charger mounted on the vehicle upper side of the transaxle mounted in the engine compartment and side by side in a vehicle width direction in a plan view, and a charging cable arranged from the charger to a charging port for external power supply connection provided on an outer plate of the vehicle, and the charging cable is arra...