US 12,421,768 B2
Vehicle
Yoshifumi Nishio, Okazaki (JP); and Kodai Taneda, Hamamatsu (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on May 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/199,083.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-092462 (JP), filed on Jun. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0392417 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. E05B 79/02 (2014.01); B60K 11/00 (2006.01); B62D 25/08 (2006.01); B62D 25/10 (2006.01); E05B 83/24 (2014.01)
CPC E05B 79/02 (2013.01) [B60K 11/00 (2013.01); B62D 25/084 (2013.01); B62D 25/105 (2013.01); E05B 83/243 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle comprising:
a vehicle body that includes a front compartment;
a radiator that is disposed in the front compartment;
a radiator support upper crossmember that makes up part of the vehicle body and that also extends in a right-left direction along an upper edge of the radiator;
a hood that is pivotably linked to the vehicle body and that is movable between an open position for opening the front compartment and a closed position for closing the front compartment; and
a hood lock that is fixed to the radiator support upper crossmember and that also locks the hood in the closed position, wherein the hood lock is positioned rearward of a center of the radiator support upper crossmember in a front-rear direction.