Battery tray floor assembly for electric vehicles
AssigneeShape Corp.
InventorsJoseph Robert Matecki, Mark Charles Stephens, Helen Weykamp
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Abstract
A vehicle battery tray has a floor assembly with elongated tray sections that attach together at edge portions of adjacent tray sections of the elongated tray sections to form a floor structure that supports vehicle batteries contained in the vehicle battery tray. The elongated tray sections may have substantially consistent cross-sectional shapes that extends along a length of the tray sections. A thickness of the tray sections at a central area of the floor structure may be greater than a thickness of another one of the elongated tray sections at an outboard area of the floor structure, such as to withstand an equal or greater transverse bending moment than the outboard area of the floor structure.
Claims20
A vehicle battery tray comprising:
- a floor assembly having a plurality of elongated tray sections that attach together at lateral edge portions of adjacent tray sections of the plurality of elongated tray sections to form a floor structure that is configured to support vehicle batteries contained in the vehicle battery tray;
- wherein the plurality of elongated tray sections each comprise a substantially consistent cross-sectional shape extending longitudinally along a length of the elongated tray section;
- wherein a thickness of one of the plurality of elongated tray sections at a central area of the floor structure is greater than a thickness of another one of the plurality of elongated tray sections at an outboard area of the floor structure;
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- wherein the central area of the floor structure is configured to withstand an equal or greater transverse bending moment than the outboard area of the floor structure.
A tray floor assembly for a vehicle battery tray, said tray floor assembly comprising:
- a plurality of elongated tray sections that attach together to form a substantially planar floor structure that is configured to support vehicle batteries;
- wherein the plurality of elongated tray sections each extend longitudinally and parallel relative to each other and each comprise a transverse cross-sectional profile that is substantially consistent longitudinally along its length;
- wherein the cross-sectional profile of at least one of the plurality of elongated tray sections includes a thickness between an upper surface and a lower surface of the floor structure that increases laterally across a width of the cross-sectional profile;
- wherein, when in an initially formed state, adjacent tray sections of the plurality of elongated tray sections are integrally interconnected;
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- wherein the adjacent tray sections are displaced from the initially formed state to an assembly state that positions the adjacent tray sections with the upper surfaces in substantially planar alignment with each other.
A tray floor assembly for a vehicle battery tray, said tray floor assembly comprising:
- a plurality of elongated tray sections that attach together to form a substantially planar floor structure that is configured to support vehicle batteries;
- wherein the plurality of elongated tray sections each extend longitudinally and parallel relative to each other and each comprise a transverse cross-sectional profile that is substantially consistent longitudinally along its length;
- wherein the cross-sectional profile of at least one of the plurality of elongated tray sections includes a thickness between an upper surface and a lower surface of the floor structure that increases laterally across a width of the cross-sectional profile;
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- wherein the plurality of elongated tray sections each include an attachment feature that attaches at a corresponding attachment feature of an adjacent tray section of the plurality of elongated tray sections.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.