ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,435, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Underrun protection and vehicle" was invented by Shoji Yamada (Fujisawa, Japan) and Shunya Saijo (Fujisawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An underrun protection mounted on a vehicle body frame includes: a main body that is hollow in shape and has a longitudinal direction along the width direction of a vehicle; a connecting part connected to the vehicle body frame; a bracket provided farther toward a distal end in the longitudinal direction than the connecting part, inside the main body. The bracket includes a vertical panel disposed along the vertical directio...