US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 19 for "Vehicle battery and sliding door hinge arrangement" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,997, issued on May 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Vehicle battery and sliding door hinge arrangement" was invented by Kosuke Sakakibara (Toyota, Japan) and Takaharu Tateishi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle side portion structure includes a battery case and a lower hinge. The battery case is disposed at a vehicle lower side of a floor panel of a vehicle. The lower hinge is provided at a lower portion of a sliding door that opens and closes a side portion of the vehicle. The lower hinge supports the sliding door to be slidable in the vehicle front-and-rear direction. In a state in wh...