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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2023
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Jeremiah T. Hammer, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle includes a protection plate that is releasably mounted to an underside of the vehicle. The protection plate has a slot having a first opening portion and a second opening portion. A bolt extends through the second opening portion and connects to a cross member that extends between longitudinally extending side members of a frame of the vehicle. The second opening portion is sized and configured to allow the bolt to slide out of the second opening portion and toward the first opening portion upon application of a longitudinal force of a preselected amount to release the protection plate from the bolt and at least partially from the underside of the vehicle.