Patent 10293858 was granted and assigned to Toyota on May, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A vehicle substructure includes a first undercover disposed in a lower portion of a vehicle and a second undercover disposed side by side with the first undercover in the lower portion of the vehicle. The second undercover is fastened to a skeleton member of the vehicle via a fastening bolt inserted into a bolt hole provided in the second undercover. A part of the first undercover is disposed below the second undercover to cover the fastening bolt fastening the second undercover from below the vehicle.