US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on July 15 for "Battery cooling air discharge structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,360, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Battery cooling air discharge structure" was invented by Michitomo Murata (Kanagawa, Japan), Makoto Oogami (Kanagawa, Japan), Jyunichi Hanawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaya Kondo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Haruka Tonomura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery cooling air discharge structure is configured to suppress noise of the cooling air for a battery. The battery cooling air discharge structure includes a floor panel, a floor, a plurality of rows of seats and an exhaust duct. The floor panel bottom forms a lower part of a vehicle body of a...