ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,836, issued on April 22, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle body lower structure" was invented by Kenichi Ando (Saitama, Japan), Kei Ambo (Tokyo), Yuki Nakamura (Tokyo) and Yoshiteru Hoshida (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a vehicle body lower structure. The vehicle body lower structure includes: a deflector, disposed on a vehicle body and movable between a stowed position covering a lower part of the vehicle body and a deployed position protruding downward; and a shaft member, extending in a vehicle left-right direction and rotatably connecting a front end of the deflector to the vehi...