US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on June 24 for "Battery unit arrangement structure for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,775, issued on June 24, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Battery unit arrangement structure for vehicle" was invented by Yuya Takemoto (Hiroshima, Japan), Mayumi Funada (Hiroshima, Japan), Masanao Sato (Hiroshima, Japan) and Tadashi Okihara (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery unit arrangement structure for a vehicle increases legroom for a passenger while disposing a battery in front of the passenger seat. The structure includes a dash vertical wall separating an interior from an engine compartment, a floor panel of the interior, and a curved corner portion connecting the lower end of the ...