US Patent Issued to HITACHI on June 24 for "Body bolster structure for railway vehicle, and railway vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,881, issued on June 24, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Body bolster structure for railway vehicle, and railway vehicle" was invented by Sota Kimura (Tokyo) and Kyouji Takahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bolster structure is capable of securing a prescribed space between a bolster and an underframe, maintaining the rigidity of the bolster structure, and reducing its weight and cost. The bolster structure is provided on an underframe constituting a floor of a railroad vehicle, and is formed by joining a plurality of shaped members having a multi-layer structure in which a width direction of the structure body is an...