US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 8 for "Front pillar structure" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,927, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Front pillar structure" was invented by Daisuke Kurokawa (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A front pillar structure, includes: a front pillar outer panel having an outer flange part at a vehicle forward side and a vehicle rearward side; a front pillar inner panel having an inner flange part joined to the outer flange part at each of the vehicle forward side and the vehicle rearward side; an outer bulkhead joined to the front pillar outer panel so as to configure a closed cross-sectional shape with the front pillar outer panel; an inner bulkhead...