US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on May 20 for "Vehicle-body structure including a center frame with a downward tilt" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,568, issued on May 20, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle-body structure including a center frame with a downward tilt" was invented by Takuma Inami (Hiroshima, Japan), Nobuyuki Nakayama (Hiroshima, Japan), Hiroyuki Baba (Hiroshima, Japan), Takashi Hirakawa (Hiroshima, Japan), Hideaki Hoshuyama (Hiroshima, Japan) and Tsuneki Shimanaka (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To sufficiently improve the distortion stiffness of a vehicle body with minimized influence on comfort in an occupant space. A vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space including a ...