ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,713, issued on June 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle lower structure" was invented by Hidefumi Nihei (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lower structure includes an under cover. The under cover includes: a cover body located under an exhaust pipe and installed on a vehicle body; a lid detachably attached to the cover body and configured to close a work hole penetrating the cover body in an upper-lower direction when the lid is attached to the cover body and to open the work hole when the lid is detached from the cover body; and a baffle made of a metal material and installed in an area of an uppe...