US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Oct. 7 for "Vehicle body side structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,773, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle body side structure" was invented by Hiroyo Miyanaga (Wako, Japan), Koichi Takahashi (Wako, Japan), Naoyuki Saruwatari (Wako, Japan), Takayuki Soma (Wako, Japan), Masayasu Yoshida (Wako, Japan), Satoru Kawabe (Wako, Japan) and Hisashi Suzuki (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This vehicle body side structure includes a wheel house disposed at a side portion of a vehicle body to surround an upper outer circumference and a vehicle width direction inner side of a wheel, and a damper base fixed to an inner surface of an upper region of the wheel house t...