US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on Oct. 7 for "Structural member of vehicle body" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,769, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Structural member of vehicle body" was invented by Toshiya Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a structural member for an automobile body includes: a hat channel member that has a top sheet portion, a pair of side wall portions extending via first corner portions, and a pair of flange portions extending via second corner portions; and a joining member that has a pair of joining portions and a top sheet facing portion, wherein a first bead extending in the longitudinal direction is formed on the top sheet facing portion, and wherein two or more se...