US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on April 29 for "Vehicle-body structure of electric automotive vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,004, issued on April 29, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle-body structure of electric automotive vehicle" was invented by Masaya Hiramatsu (Hiroshima, Japan), Takehiro Kamei (Hiroshima, Japan) and Takayuki Kimura (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-body structure comprises right-and-left front side frames and right-and-left frame members respectively extending forward from a vehicle-front portion of a battery case below the right-and-left front side frames. Plural right-side connection portions to connect the right-side frame member to the right-side front side frame are provided to ...