US Patent Issued to Teijin, Teijin Automotive Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Vehicle structure" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,841, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Teijin Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) and Teijin Automotive Technologies Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicle structure" was invented by Tsukasa Arai (Osaka, Japan), Yoshiki Kashiwagi (Osaka, Japan), Shota Nagata (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Miyauchi (Osaka, Japan), Masatomo Teshima (Osaka, Japan), Hugh Foran (Auburn Hills, Mich.) and Max Kamiyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vehicle structure disposed at a lower portion of a center of a vehicle body, the vehicle structure including: a battery cover, a battery tray, and a structural member A for absorbing impact energy. Each of th...