Vehicle battery protection structure
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorsEiji Kamemoto, Takehiro Kamei, Taiki Yotsuyanagi
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Abstract
A vehicle-body structure improves mounting rigidity of a battery protection frame and rigidity of the battery protection frame itself by including a battery protection frame which has a hollow cross-section, a vehicle-body-side frame which extends along the battery protection frame and is coupled with the battery protection frame, and a fixation member which is inserted through a hole portion of the battery protection frame and is capable of fixing the battery protection frame to a vehicle body component as another component than the vehicle-body-side frame in an internal portion of the battery protection frame.
Claims8
A vehicle-body structure for an electric vehicle which includes a traveling motor and in which a battery supplying electric power to the traveling motor is disposed below a floor panel, the vehicle-body structure comprising:
- a battery protection frame that protects the battery and has a hollow cross-section;
- a vehicle-body-side frame that extends toward the battery protection frame and is coupled with the battery protection frame;
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- a fixation member that is inserted into a space of an internal portion of the battery protection frame through a hole portion opening in an outer surface of the battery protection frame and connected with the space, wherein the fixation member fixes the battery protection frame to a vehicle body component as another component than the vehicle-body-side frame in the internal portion of the battery protection frame,
- wherein the battery protection frame is disposed below the vehicle body component,
- wherein in the internal portion of the battery protection frame, a partition wall portion that marks off the space in an up-down direction is provided between an upper wall portion and a lower wall portion of the battery protection frame, and
- wherein the fixation member exerts a fixing force on the partition wall portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.