US Patent Issued to Toyoda Iron Works on June 17 for "Vehicle center pillar member and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,205, issued on June 17, was assigned to Toyoda Iron Works Co. Ltd. (Aichi, Japan).

"Vehicle center pillar member and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Hiroyasu Kosaka (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a vehicle center pillar member is formed to have a hat-shaped cross-section by press-molding a tailored blank material formed by joining a plurality of members in a longitudinal direction along at least one joining line. The vehicle center pillar member includes a top plate portion and vertical wall portions on both sides of the top plate portion. The at least one joining line of the t...