Motor vehicle
AssigneeSubaru Corporation
InventorsHiroshi Ozawa, Yu Onodera, Keita Sato
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Abstract
A motor vehicle includes side sills that are disposed in pairs on the right and left sides of the motor vehicle and that has bag-shaped cross-sections when viewed from the front of the motor vehicle and a floor panel that constitutes bottoms of at least a passenger compartment and that is coupled to the side sills. The motor vehicle further includes a battery panel that is disposed below the floor panel so as to support batteries and that is coupled to the side sills and a battery movement allowance mechanism that allows movement of the batteries toward the inside of the side sills when the batteries are moved to one side in a vehicle-width direction and, consequently, a load from the batteries is applied to the side sills.
Claims16
A motor vehicle comprising:
- side sills that are disposed on respective right and left sides of the motor vehicle and that each have a bag-shaped cross-section when viewed from the front of the motor vehicle;
- a floor panel that constitutes a bottom of at least a passenger compartment and that is coupled to the side sills;
- a battery panel that is disposed below the floor panel and coupled to the side sills, the battery panel supporting batteries;
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- a battery movement allowance mechanism that allows movement of the batteries toward the inside of a receiving side sill at the time of a load being applied when the batteries are moved to one side in a vehicle-width direction and, consequently, a load from the batteries is applied to the receiving side sill,
- wherein each of the side sills comprises an outer panel disposed on the outer side thereof in the vehicle-width direction and an inner panel that is disposed on the inner side in the vehicle-width direction and that forms the bag-shaped cross-section together with the outer panel;
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- wherein the inner panel comprises an upper panel and a lower panel that are able to separate from each other at the time of the load being applied.
A motor vehicle comprising:
- side sills that are disposed on respective right and left sides of the motor vehicle and that each have a bag-shaped cross-section when viewed from the front of the motor vehicle;
- a floor panel that constitutes a bottom of at least a passenger compartment and that is coupled to the side sills;
- a battery panel that is disposed below the floor panel and coupled to the side sills, the battery panel supporting batteries;
- and
- a battery movement allowance mechanism that allows movement of the batteries toward the inside of a receiving side sill at the time of a load being applied when the batteries are moved to one side in a vehicle-width direction and, consequently, a load from the batteries is applied to the receiving side sill,
- wherein each of the side sills comprises an outer panel disposed on the outer side thereof in the vehicle-width direction and an inner panel that is disposed on the inner side in the vehicle-width direction and that forms the bag-shaped cross-section together with the outer panel;
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- wherein the inner panel comprises a bellows-shaped portion that comes into contact with the batteries at the time of the load being applied.
A motor vehicle comprising:
- side sills that are disposed on respective right and left sides of the motor vehicle and that each have a bag-shaped cross-section when viewed from the front of the motor vehicle;
- a floor panel that constitutes a bottom of at least a passenger compartment and that is coupled to the side sills;
- a battery panel that is disposed below the floor panel and coupled to the side sills, the battery panel supporting batteries;
- and
- a battery movement allowance mechanism that allows movement of the batteries toward the inside of a receiving side sill at the time of a load being applied when the batteries are moved to one side in a vehicle-width direction and, consequently, a load from the batteries is applied to the receiving side sill;
- wherein each of the side sills comprises an outer panel disposed on the outer side thereof in the vehicle-width direction and an inner panel that is disposed on the inner side in the vehicle-width direction and that forms the bag-shaped cross-section together with the outer panel;
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- wherein the inner panel comprises a linear thin-wall portion or a hole and, the inner panel being configured at the time of the load being applied, to break, with the thin-wall portion or the hole at a starting point.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.