US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on March 4 for "Vehicle-body structure including suspension support members" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,529, issued on March 4, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle-body structure including suspension support members" was invented by Takuma Inami (Hiroshima, Japan), Nobuyuki Nakayama (Hiroshima, Japan), Hiroyuki Baba (Hiroshima, Japan) and Hiroaki Fujii (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To increase an effect of absorbing an impact load from a vehicle front side. A vehicle-body structure includes a left-side suspension support member supporting a front suspension, a center frame disposed higher than and away from a floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of an occupant space and ...