US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 10 for "Vehicle floor structure and method for manufacturing vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,469, issued on June 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle floor structure and method for manufacturing vehicle" was invented by Nobuyo Kondo (Toyota, Japan), Hiroshi Kawaguchi (Okazaki, Japan) and Yoshihiko Tsuzuki (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle floor structure, in one aspect, includes a floor pan, an upper surface-side reinforcing member joined to an upper surface of the floor pan, and a lower surface-side reinforcing member joined to a lower surface of the floor pan. The floor pan is formed of a resin-coated steel plate, and a resin layer of the resin-coated steel plate includes ...