US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 6 for "Vehicle rear section structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,851, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle rear section structure" was invented by Tomohiro Tamanyu (Toyota, Japan) and Shota Shimizu (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rear side member is provided with a first bead that is set so as to be weaker than other portions of the rear side member. The first bead is set so as to induce deformation of the rear side member toward a vehicle width direction inner side and toward a lower side when a collision load is input from a rear cross member at a time of a rear collision of a vehicle, and when the collision load is input from the rear cr...