ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,407, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle body upper structure" was invented by Kosaku Tomozawa (Wako, Japan), Yusuke Takayama (Wako, Japan), Masaaki Fujimoto (Wako, Japan), Yoshikatsu Ota (Wako, Japan) and Hitomi Yamada (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle body upper structure includes: roof side rails; side outer panels; and a roof panel made of a material different from a martial of the roof side rails. The roof panel and the paired left and right side outer panels are fixed to one another by braze joining. An end portion of the roof panel in a vehicle front-rear direction incl...