US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO, SUBURU, TOYOTO JIDOSHA on March 11 for "Support structure for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,787, issued on March 11, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan), SUBURU Corp. (Tokyo) and TOYOTO JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi, Japan).

"Support structure for vehicle" was invented by Yasuhiro Maruyama (Nagano, Japan), Susumu Yodono (Nagano, Japan) and Yasuaki Matsumoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support structure for a vehicle includes: a body portion (22); a damper attachment portion (24); a tie-rod attachment portion (26); and a lower arm attachment portion (28). The vehicle supporting structure (20) has a first rib (32) that connects the damper attachment portion (24) with the tie-rod attachment portion (26), a ...