US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 29 for "Vehicle floor structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,935, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle floor structure" was invented by Kazuki Ohtake (Toyota, Japan), Norimasa Koreishi (Miyoshi, Japan) and Hideo Takeda (Hekinan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle floor structure includes a left rocker disposed on a side surface of the vehicle, a front floor cross member having a hat-shaped cross section composed of the upper open groove portion and the rear upper flange and the front upper flange, and a front connecting member for connecting the left rocker and the front floor cross member. The left rocker is arranged so that the height...