US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on April 29 for "Vehicle-body structure with a battery cover for improved aerodynamic performance" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,019, issued on April 29, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle-body structure with a battery cover for improved aerodynamic performance" was invented by Takuma Inami (Hiroshima, Japan), Nobuyuki Nakayama (Hiroshima, Japan), Hiroyuki Baba (Hiroshima, Japan) and Hiroshi Tanaka (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-body structure both protects a battery and provides a routing member below a floor panel that improves underfloor aerodynamic performance. Embodiments of a vehicle-body structure may include: a routing member that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction on a vehicle-width-directi...