US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "Vehicle body structure with side collision suppression" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,716, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle body structure with side collision suppression" was invented by Takeshi Mika (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle body structure, that includes: a floor tunnel that protrudes from a floor panel toward a vehicle upper side and that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction; a pair of side members, the respective side members provided at each vehicle width direction side of the floor panel and extending in the vehicle front-rear direction; a pair of cross members that respectively extend in a vehicle width direction, each cross mem...