US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on April 22 for "Vehicle-body structure including a pair of rear-side frames" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,833, issued on April 22, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle-body structure including a pair of rear-side frames" was invented by Takashi Hirakawa (Hiroshima, Japan), Hideaki Hoshuyama (Hiroshima, Japan), Tsuneki Shimanaka (Hiroshima, Japan) and Nobuyuki Nakayama (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To suppress vibration and noise due to load input from a rear suspension device, a left-side load input portion that is fixed to a left-side rear-side frame and to which a load from a rear suspension device is input, and a right-side load input portion that is fixed to a right-side rear-side frame and...