US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on June 24 for "Vehicle lower body structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,902, issued on June 24, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle lower body structure" was invented by Takuya Adachi (Hiroshima, Japan) and Hirotaka Natsume (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle floor frame provides improved ride quality and energy absorption. A wall section opposes a lower surface of a floor panel; an outer wall section extends from an outer end portion of the wall section toward the floor panel; an inner wall section extends from an inner end portion of the wall section toward the floor panel; and a hole and a bead reduce a dimension of the wall section when an impact load...