US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Jan. 20 for "Side structure of vehicle body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,541, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Side structure of vehicle body" was invented by Atsushi Hasegawa (Saitama, Japan), Hitomi Yamada (Saitama, Japan) and Ryotaro Takeuchi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a side structure of a vehicle body, which realizes a pillar structure that can efficiently absorb the collision energy in the event of a side collision with a simple configuration to be capable of effectively increasing the vehicle body support rigidity in the event of a vehicle side collision. The side structure of the vehicle body includes a reinforcing member ...