Vehicle body front section structure
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTatsuya Ayukawa
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Abstract
A vehicle body front section structure is provided including a battery pack, a lower cross member, and an impact absorbing structure. The battery pack is mounted at a vehicle lower side of a floor panel of a vehicle. The lower cross member is disposed at the vehicle lower side of a front cross member at a lower section of a front end of the vehicle, and extends along a vehicle width direction. The impact absorbing structure is provided between the lower cross member and the battery pack, and absorbs collision energy from collision load input from a vehicle front side.
Claims2
A vehicle body front section structure comprising:
- a battery pack that is mounted at a vehicle lower side of a floor panel of a vehicle;
- a lower cross member that is disposed at the vehicle lower side of a front cross member at a lower section of a front end of the vehicle, and that extends along a vehicle width direction;
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- an impact absorbing structure that is provided between the lower cross member and the battery pack, the impact absorbing structure including a suspension member that supports a front suspension, the impact absorbing structure configured to absorb collision energy from collision load input from a vehicle front side, wherein:
- the suspension member includes a pair of suspension member side rails and a pair of suspension member side rail rears that configure a rear portion of the suspension member,
- the pair of suspension member side rails are disposed so as to be spaced apart from each other in the vehicle width direction and extend along a vehicle front-rear direction, respective front side members extending along the vehicle front-rear direction at an upper side of the pair of suspension member side rails,
- the pair of suspension member side rail rears extend along the vehicle front-rear direction, have a vehicle front-rear direction front end portion joined to the suspension member side rails, and have a vehicle front-rear direction rear end portion joined to the front side member and to the battery pack, and
- the vehicle front-rear direction rear end portion of the suspension member side rail rears is disposed at the vehicle lower side of a bottom plate of the battery pack, and is joined to the bottom plate of the battery pack from the vehicle lower side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.