Battery attachment for vehicles
AssigneeRivian IP Holdings, LLC
InventorsAkash Thombre, Piyush Khater, Adam Richard Ballard, Andrew O'Bannon
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Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a battery-to-subframe attachment for a vehicle. The battery-to-subframe attachment may form a load path from a front subframe of a vehicle to one or more longitudinal members of a battery pack for the vehicle. This attachment may help to utilize the mass and strength of a battery pack as an integral part of the structure of the vehicle, and may also improve torsional and bending stiffness of the vehicle via attachment between the subframe and the battery pack.
Claims19
An apparatus, comprising:
- a structural attachment member configured to:
- attach a battery pack for a vehicle to a subframe of the vehicle, and
- provide a load path from the subframe to the battery pack;
- wherein the structural attachment member comprises:
- a first set of attachment features for attaching the structural attachment member to the battery pack, and
- a second set of attachment features for attaching the structural attachment member to the subframe of the vehicle;
- and
- wherein the load path is substantially aligned in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a subframe for a vehicle;
- a structural attachment member;
- and
- a battery pack having a longitudinal member,
- wherein a load path extends along a continuous line from the subframe to the longitudinal member of the battery pack,
- wherein the structural attachment member comprises:
- a first set of attachment features for attaching the structural attachment member to the battery pack, and
- a second set of attachment features for attaching the structural attachment member to the subframe of the vehicle, and
- wherein the load path is substantially aligned in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle.
A vehicle, comprising:
- a structural attachment member configured to:
- attach a battery pack for the vehicle to a subframe of the vehicle, and
- provide a load path from the subframe to the battery pack;
- wherein the structural attachment member comprises:
- a first set of attachment features for attaching the structural attachment member to the battery pack, and
- a second set of attachment features for attaching the structural attachment member to the subframe of the vehicle;
- and
- wherein the load path is substantially aligned in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.