# US 12,603,374 B2 · Battery-mounted vehicle

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- Number: US 12,603,374 B2
- Document ID: US12603374B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 18/512,024
- Filed: 2023-11-17
- Published: 2024-06-27
- Granted: 2026-04-14
- Earliest claimed: 2022-12-26
- Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Inventors: Masayuki Okano
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12603374B2

## CPC

- H01M 50/249: specially adapted for aircraft or vehicles, e.g. cars or trains (constructional details of batteries specially adapted for electric vehicles B60L50/64)
- B60K 1/04: of the electric storage means for propulsion
- B60K 2001/0438: {Arrangement under the floor}
- H01M 2220/20: Batteries in motive systems, e.g. vehicle, ship, plane
- H01M: PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
- B60K: ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES

## Abstract

A battery-mounted vehicle includes a battery pack mounted at a vehicle lower side of a floor pan of a passenger compartment; a vehicle body frame member having a vertical wall that faces a peripheral wall of the battery pack in a vehicle horizontal direction with a gap therebetween; and an expansion chamber configured by at least one of an inner side concave portion that is formed at the peripheral wall of the battery pack or an outer side concave portion formed at the vertical wall of the vehicle body frame member, in a cross-sectional view viewed in the vehicle horizontal direction. The inner side concave portion is recessed toward an inner side, in the vehicle horizontal direction, of the battery pack, and the outer side concave portion is formed so as to be recessed toward an inner side, in the vehicle horizontal direction, of vehicle body frame member.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A battery-mounted vehicle comprising:
a battery pack mounted at a vehicle lower side of a floor pan of a passenger compartment;
a vehicle body frame member having a vertical wall that faces a peripheral wall of the battery pack in a vehicle horizontal direction with a gap therebetween; and
an expansion chamber configured by at least one of an inner side concave portion that is formed at the peripheral wall of the battery pack or an outer side concave portion formed at the vertical wall of the vehicle body frame member, in a cross-sectional view viewed in the vehicle horizontal direction, the inner side concave portion being recessed toward an inner side, in the vehicle horizontal direction, of the battery pack, and the outer side concave portion being formed so as to be recessed toward an inner side, in the vehicle horizontal direction, of the vehicle body frame member,
wherein the inner side concave portion is formed by bending the peripheral wall of the battery pack horizontally inwardly in a vehicle width direction, further bending vertically upwardly, and bending horizontally outwardly in the vehicle width direction, and
wherein the outer side concave portion is formed by bending the vertical wall of the vehicle body frame member horizontally outwardly in the vehicle width direction, further bending vertically upwardly, and bending horizontally inwardly in the vehicle width direction.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The battery-mounted vehicle according to claim 1, wherein, in a cross-sectional view viewed in the vehicle horizontal direction, a first protruding portion that protrudes toward the vehicle lower side is formed at an upper edge portion of at least one of the inner side concave portion of the battery pack or the outer side concave portion of the vehicle body frame member.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The battery-mounted vehicle according to claim 1, wherein, in a cross-sectional view viewed in the vehicle horizontal direction, a second protruding portion that protrudes in the vehicle horizontal direction toward an inner side of the expansion chamber is formed at at least one of the inner side concave portion of the battery pack or the outer side concave portion of the vehicle body frame member.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The battery-mounted vehicle according to claim 1, wherein a common expansion chamber is configured by the inner side concave portion and the outer side concave portion.

### Claim 5

A battery-mounted vehicle comprising:
a battery pack mounted at a vehicle lower side of a floor pan of a passenger compartment;
a vehicle body frame member having a vertical wall that faces a peripheral wall of the battery pack in a vehicle horizontal direction with a gap therebetween;
an inner side passage formed at the peripheral wall of the battery pack so as to divert toward an inner side of the battery pack in a cross-sectional view viewed in the vehicle horizontal direction; and
an outer side passage formed at the vertical wall of the vehicle body frame member so as to divert toward an inner side of the vehicle body frame member in a cross-sectional view viewed in the vehicle horizontal direction,
wherein the inner side passage and the outer side passage are offset in a vehicle up-down direction so as not to overlap with each other in the vehicle horizontal direction.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The battery-mounted vehicle according to claim 5, wherein:
the inner side passage comprises a first lower inlet and a first upper outlet at the peripheral wall of the battery pack,
the outer side passage comprises a second lower inlet and a second upper outlet at the vertical wall of the vehicle body frame member, and
positions of the first lower inlet and the first upper outlet of the inner side passage and the second lower inlet and the second upper outlet of the outer side passage are deviated in the vehicle up-down direction such that the first lower inlet and the first upper outlet, and the second lower inlet and the second upper outlet do not face one another in the vehicle horizontal direction.