US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 30 for "Body for vehicle, and battery electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,070, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Body for vehicle, and battery electric vehicle" was invented by Takuya Suzuki (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body for a vehicle includes an upper member. The upper member has an internal space between a first plate and a second plate, and the internal space extends in a longitudinal direction of the upper member. The first plate includes an upper wall portion, an inner wall portion, and a first flange extending along a lower end of the inner wall portion. The second plate includes a lower wall portion, an outer wall portion, and a seco...