ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,047, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Device protection structure of vehicle body" was invented by Masayuki Oguri (Tokyo), Takuya Inazumi (Tokyo), Hajime Kusumoto (Tokyo) and Jin Tomita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slider member (30), at least covering a front surface part of a protection target device (40) disposed under a floor of a vehicle body (1) behind a sub-frame (20); and an installation member (50), disposed behind a rear end part (22) of the sub-frame (20) and installing the slider member (30) to the vehicle body (1) are provided. The slider member (30) has an inclined surface (31...