MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517056618 A) filed by Jfe Steel Corporation, Tokyo, on June 12, for 'automotive sub-frame structure and stiffening component for same.'
Inventor(s) include Yamaguchi Naoki.
The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Provided is an automotive sub-frame structure capable of improving the stiffness of a sub-frame and minimizing an increase in vehicle body weight. The automotive sub-frame structure comprises a left and right pair of side members which comprise hollow members that extend in a vehicle body front-rear direction of an automobile and which include a suspension arm linking portion, and two or more cross members which comprise hollow members that extend in a vehicle body left-right direction of the automobile and which are connected to the left and right pair of side members in a direction intersecting the same, wherein: stiffening components are installed inside the cross members in the vicinity of connecting portions of each cross member and each side member; and the stiffening components include a cross-sectional stiffening portion which closes all or part of a cross section of the cross member, and a plate surface stiffening portion having a shape conforming to an inner surface of an upper plate or a lower plate of the cross member and an inner surface of at least one of left and right wall plates of the cross member."
The patent application was internationally filed on Sept. 26, 2023, under International application No.PCT/JP2023/034887.
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