US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on May 6 for "Vehicle-body structure having a center frame that is higher than a floor panel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,276, issued on May 6, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle-body structure having a center frame that is higher than a floor panel" was invented by Takuma Inami (Hiroshima, Japan), Nobuyuki Nakayama (Hiroshima, Japan) and Hiroyuki Baba (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space, a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of the occupant space and extending in a front-rear direction, a cross member extending and intersecting the center frame i...