US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 18 for "In-vehicle component protection structure" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,082, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"In-vehicle component protection structure" was invented by Yukihiro Fukawa (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle component protection structure includes a first in-vehicle component, a second in-vehicle component that is an object to be protected from collision with the first in-vehicle component, and a protector disposed between the first in-vehicle component and the second in-vehicle component so as to face the first in-vehicle component. When the first in-vehicle component collides with the protector, the protector allows the firs...