MUMBAI, India, July 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514002444 A) filed by Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd., Aichi, Japan, on Jan. 10, for 'vehicle beam.'
Inventor(s) include Hiroki Takai; Daisuke Nagano; Tetsuya Kawamura; and Shuji Kanamoto.
The application for the patent was published on July 25, under issue no. 30/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A vehicle beam extends in a vehicle width direction within an instrument panel of a vehicle to support the instrument panel. The vehicle beam includes a tubular duct body portion, a peripheral portion connected to the duct body portion, and a beam shell portion made of a resin material. The beam shell portion is divided into a plurality of beam divided bodies in a circumferential direction of the beam shell portion. Each of the beam divided bodies has a beam connection portion at a boundary with an adjacent beam divided body. The adjacent beam divided bodies are coupled by joining the adjacent beam connection portions. The adjacent beam connection portions have a pair of beam facing surfaces. One of the beam facing surfaces is formed with a beam welding rib extending along the beam facing surface. The adjacent beam connection portions are joined by welding at the beam welding rib."
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