US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on Jan. 28 for "Vehicle-body front structure that improves protection for pedestrian collision" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,759, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle-body front structure that improves protection for pedestrian collision" was invented by Takuma Inami (Hiroshima, Japan), Nobuyuki Nakayama (Hiroshima, Japan), Hiroyuki Baba (Hiroshima, Japan), Mitsuru Wakabayashi (Hiroshima, Japan) and Koji Miyamoto (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve protection performance for a pedestrian colliding with a front portion of a traveling vehicle, a front bumper includes a bumper fascia, a front grill, and decorative member. The disposition position and shape of a bumper reinforcement are set s...