US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on July 29 for "Vehicle-body front structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,104, issued on July 29, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle-body front structure" was invented by Kota Yoshida (Hiroshima, Japan), Taiki Yotsuyanagi (Hiroshima, Japan), Takayuki Kimura (Hiroshima, Japan), Satoshi Nakamura (Hiroshima, Japan) and Yoshihiro Miyamoto (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-body front structure includes a partition wall portion which demarcates a space inside a vehicle cabin and a pair of left and right suspension tower portions which are formed to bulge inward in the vehicle width direction and support upper portions of front suspension apparatuses. A lower-s...