US Patent Issued to KOBE STEEL on April 15 for "Vehicle structural member and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,457, issued on April 15, was assigned to KOBE STEEL LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Vehicle structural member and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Yoshimune Mori (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle structural member 1 includes a tube body having an expanded tube portion that is partially expanded, and a wall surface body having a first wall provided with a first through-hole, a second wall provided with a second through-hole, and a connecting wall connecting the first wall and the second wall. The tube body is inserted through the first through-hole and the second through-hole, and is joined to the wall surface b...