ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,572, issued on July 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle lower structure" was invented by Kenichi Ando (Saitama, Japan), Kei Ambo (Tokyo), Yoshiteru Hoshida (Tokyo) and Yuki Nakamura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lower structure includes a deflector panel provided on a vehicle body of a vehicle and movable between a stored position covering a lower portion of the vehicle body and an unfolded position protruding downwards. The deflector panel includes a front deflector panel and a rear deflector panel. The front deflector panel is rotatably arranged on the vehicle body along a first rotation axi...