Vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHirotaka Watanabe, Shigeyuki Inoue, Toshio Uchiyama, Satoshi Inukai
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Abstract
A vehicle includes: a floor panel; and a battery pack mounted under the floor panel. The battery pack includes: a plurality of cell stacks; a housing case including a bottom portion and configured to house the plurality of cell stacks; and a plurality of support members provided on the bottom portion and spaced apart from one another. When a front region, a central region and a rear region are defined in a bottom view of the housing case, a ratio of a total area where the support member is provided in the central region to an area of the central region is higher than a ratio of a total area where the support member is provided in the rear region to an area of the rear region.
Claims3
A vehicle comprising
- a floor panel;
- and
- a battery pack mounted under the floor panel,
- the battery pack including:
- a plurality of cell stacks;
- a housing case including a bottom portion and configured to house the plurality of cell stacks;
- and
- a plurality of support members provided on the bottom portion and spaced apart from one another,
- when a front region, a central region and a rear region are defined in a bottom view of the housing case, a ratio of a total area where the support member is provided in the central region to an area of the central region being higher than a ratio of a total area where the support member is provided in the rear region to an area of the rear region, the central region being located on a vehicle rear side of the front region and being equal in length in a vehicle front-rear direction to the front region, the rear region being located on the vehicle rear side of the central region and being equal in length in the vehicle front-rear direction to the front region, wherein
- the support members are arranged on an outer side of the housing case, and
- when cut along a vertical plane, each of the support members has a cross-sectional shape having a base portion provided below the bottom portion at a distance therefrom, and a pair of leg portions extending upwardly from both ends of the base portion and abutting on the bottom portion at ends of the pair of leg portions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.