US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on Feb. 25 for "Vehicle-body structure including a cross member at a rear portion of the floor panel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,946, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle-body structure including a cross member at a rear 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) and Tsuneki Shimanaka (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To sufficiently improve the distortion stiffness of a vehicle body in a case in which no floor tunnel largely bulging upward from a floor panel is provided. A vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel const...