Vehicle-body structure of electric automotive vehicle
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorsTakehiro Kamei, Takayuki Kimura
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Abstract
A vehicle-body structure comprises a dash panel, a pair of right-and-left front side frames, a pair of right-and-left side sills, a pair of right-and-left first longitudinal load-transmitting members respectively extending from respective vehicle-rear portions of the right-and-left front side frames to the right-and-left side sills along an upper face of the floor panel, and a pair of right-and-left second longitudinal load-transmitting members respectively extending from the respective vehicle-rear portions of the right-and-left front side frames toward a vehicle-front portion of the battery case along a lower face of the floor panel.
Claims16
A vehicle-body structure of an electric automotive vehicle, in which a motor for vehicle driving is provided and a battery case where a battery to supply electric power to the motor for vehicle driving is stored is arranged below a floor panel, comprising:
- a dash panel partitioning a cabin from a front space of a vehicle body in a vehicle longitudinal direction and connected to a vehicle-front end portion of the floor panel at a lower end portion thereof;
- a pair of right-and-left front side frames respectively extending forward from both sides, in a vehicle width direction, of the dash panel;
- a pair of right-and-left side sills respectively extending in the vehicle longitudinal direction at both end portions, in the vehicle width direction, of the floor panel;
- a pair of right-and-left first longitudinal load-transmitting members respectively extending from respective vehicle-rear portions of the right-and-left front side frames to the right-and-left side sills along an upper face of the floor panel;
- a pair of right-and-left second longitudinal load-transmitting members respectively extending from the respective vehicle-rear portions of the right-and-left front side frames toward a vehicle-front portion of the battery case along a lower face of the floor panel;
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- a pair of frame members respectively extending forward from said battery case below said pair of right-and-left front side frames.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.