US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 23 for "Vehicle structure and method for manufacturing vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,731, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle structure and method for manufacturing vehicle" was invented by Masayuki Motobe (Toyota, Japan), 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 structure according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a body; a bumper reinforcement disposed at a front or a rear of the body; and a crash box, one end of the crash box being joined to an outer end of the body in a front-rear direction and the other end of the crash box being joined to the bumper...