US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 23 for "Vehicle structure for battery protection" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,166, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle structure for battery protection" was invented by Yuta Nagasaki (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a floor panel, a battery, a rocker, a torque box, and a front side member. The torque box extends inward in the vehicle width direction from a front end of the rocker along a front edge of the floor panel. The torque box includes a front wall and a rear wall that face each other in the vehicle length direction. The front wall and the rear wall define an internal space extending in the vehicle width direction. The front ...