ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,855, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Vehicle structure" was invented by Yuki Ide (Ikeda, Japan), Hiroshi Satake (Ikeda, Japan), Naoki Nishimura (Ikeda, Japan) and Akinori Suzuki (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle structure includes a sliding door operation device configured to move a sliding door on a side portion of a vehicle. The device includes a motor unit and a moving member operating mechanism portion including a belt or a wire-shaped moving member coupled to the sliding door and a driven rotary member that receives a rotational driving force from the motor unit. The motor u...