ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,166, issued on April 29, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle body lower structure" was invented by Kenichi Ando (Saitama, Japan), Yoshiteru Hoshida (Tokyo), Kei Ambo (Saitama, Japan), Yuki Nakamura (Saitama, Japan) and Hidefumi Nihei (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle body lower structure includes an airflow guiding plate that is arranged on the vehicle body of a vehicle and is movable between a receiving position covering the lower part of the vehicle body and a deploying position protruding downward. Specifically, the airflow guiding plate includes a front airflow guiding plate and a rear airflow gu...