ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,950, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Panel body manufacturing method" was invented by Li Gao (Kanagawa, Japan), Manabu Atsumi (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Oiki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shohei Iida (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the manufacture of a panel body composed of a first panel, which has a structure in which two panel materials of different sheet thicknesses are butted and joined, and a second panel, which is arranged on the outside of the first panel and connected thereto by hemming, the first panel is pressed so that the main surfaces of the two panel materials on ...