ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,545, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle body structural member" was invented by Masaharu Noguchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle body structural member is formed from a fiber-reinforced resin composite. The vehicle body structural member includes a break scheduled part. The break scheduled part is provided on a load input surface to which a collision load is expected to be input. The break scheduled part is configured to, when the collision load is input, undergo a brittle fracture and divide the load input surface into a first region and a second region on both sides respectively in a p...