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US 11,628,889 B2Granted
Vehicle unit installation structure
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSatoshi Ajisaka
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Abstract
A vehicle unit installation structure has: a power generating unit that is installed at a front portion of a vehicle; a driving unit that is installed at a vehicle rear side of the power generating unit, and that drives front wheels of the vehicle; and a floor tunnel that is formed at a floor that is disposed at a vehicle rear side of the driving unit, a width of a front end portion of the floor tunnel being greater than a width of at least a rear end portion of the driving unit.
Claims10
A vehicle unit installation structure comprising:
- a power generating unit that is installed at a front portion of a vehicle;
- a driving unit that is installed at a vehicle rear side of the power generating unit, and that drives front wheels of the vehicle;
- and
- a floor tunnel that is formed by a floor of the vehicle, and that is disposed at the vehicle rear side of the driving unit,
- wherein
- the driving unit is disposed to be outside of the floor tunnel, and
- a width of a front end portion of the floor tunnel in a width direction of the vehicle is greater than a width of at least a rear end portion of the driving unit in the width direction of the vehicle to allow the driving unit to move from outside of the floor tunnel to inside of the floor tunnel in response to a load being inputted from a vehicle front side of the vehicle.
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