US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on May 27 for "Vehicle-body front structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,010, issued on May 27, 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: "Both of a requirement for absorption of an impact load in a collision and a requirement for layout of direction and position of a steering wheel are satisfied based on a vehicle-body front structure that includes a partition wall portion which demarcates a vehicle cabin inside space. A lower-side port...