US 10,300,799 B2Granted

Vehicle and protector structure

AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.

InventorsYasuhisa Kume, Shuta Fukuda

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Abstract

A vehicle includes a cover, a front protector, and a rear protector. The cover has a cover lowest portion projecting from the bottom of the vehicle body toward an outside of the vehicle by a first distance. The front protector is provided on a front side of the cover in a front-rear direction. The front protector has a front protector lowest portion projecting from the bottom of the vehicle body toward the outside of the vehicle a second distance longer than the first distance. The rear protector is provided on a rear side of the cover in the front-rear direction. The cover is provided between the front protector and the rear protector in the front-rear direction. The rear protector has a rear protector lowest portion projecting from the bottom toward the outside of the vehicle by a third distance longer than the first distance.

Claims18

Dependent claims

In a vehicle configured such that a non-contact electric element for either or both of power transmitting and power receiving is disposed on the lower surface of a vehicle body,

said vehicle characterized in that said vehicle has
a covered member protecting said electric element by covering said electric element,
a front protecting member preventing said covered member from contacting with an obstacle on a road surface or said road surface itself in a front direction of said covered member, said front protecting member extending along a front side of said covered member,
a rear protecting member preventing said covered member from contacting with the obstacle on said road surface or said road surface itself in a rear direction of said covered member, said rear protecting member extending along a rear side of said covered member,
the lowest portion of said front protecting member or the lowest portion of said rear protecting member are positioned below the lowest portion of said covered member,
the vehicle characterized in that
said front protecting member has an elongated shape that longitudinally extends in a width direction of the vehicle, and
said rear protecting member has an elongated shape that longitudinally extends in the width direction of the vehicle,
the vehicle characterized in that said front protecting member and said rear protecting member are fixed on the lower surface of said body through a bracket, and
the rigidity of said bracket is lower than the rigidity of said front protecting member and the rigidity of said rear protecting member.

7 more elements

A vehicle comprising:

an electric circuit disposed on a bottom of a vehicle body and configured to transmit and/or to receive electric power wirelessly;
a cover covering the electric circuit and having a cover lowest portion projecting from the bottom of the vehicle body toward an outside of the vehicle by a first distance in a height direction of the vehicle;
a front protector provided on a front side of the cover in a front-rear direction of the vehicle perpendicular to the height direction, the front protector having a front protector lowest portion projecting from the bottom of the vehicle body toward the outside of the vehicle in the height direction by a second distance longer than the first distance, the front protector extending along the front side of the cover;
and
a rear protector provided on a rear side of the cover in the front-rear direction, the cover being provided between the front protector and the rear protector in the front-rear direction, the rear protector having a rear protector lowest portion projecting from the bottom toward the outside of the vehicle in the height direction by a third distance longer than the first distance, the rear protector extending along the rear side of the cover,
wherein the front protector has an elongated shape that longitudinally extends in a width direction of the vehicle,
wherein the rear protector has an elongated shape that longitudinally extends in the width direction of the vehicle,
wherein the front protector and the rear protector are fixed on a bottom surface of the vehicle body through a bracket, and
wherein rigidity of the bracket is lower than rigidity of the front protector and rigidity of the rear protector.

6 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/340,989Filed 2 Nov 2016
Priority: JP 2015-2153822 Nov 2015
Published: US 2017/0120760 A14 May 2017
Granted: 28 May 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

B60K 1/00
Arrangement or mounting of electrical propulsion units
B60L 3/0015
Measures or means for preventing or attenuating collisions: prevention of collisions
B60L 53/122
Inductive energy transfer: circuits or methods for driving the primary coil, e.g. supplying electric power to the coil
B60Y 2200/91
Vehicles comprising electric prime movers: electric vehicles