US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on April 15 for "Vehicle-body structure including a cross member at a recessed portion of the floor panel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,458, issued on April 15, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle-body structure including a cross member at a recessed portion of the floor panel" was invented by Takuma Inami (Hiroshima, Japan), Nobuyuki Nakayama (Hiroshima, Japan), Hiroyuki Baba (Hiroshima, Japan), Takashi Hirakawa (Hiroshima, Japan), Hideaki Hoshuyama (Hiroshima, Japan), Takayuki Kimura (Hiroshima, Japan) and Takehiro Kamei (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To increase the stiffness of a floor panel while maintaining a large foot space for a rear-seat passenger. A vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel constituting a flo...