Structure for installing an automotive battery
AssigneeFuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTsutomu Iwase
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Abstract
A structure for installing an automotive battery which would protect the battery installed in a rear part of a vehicle body is provided. In a structure for installing an automotive battery in which the battery is mounted on a battery mounting base provided on a floor in a rear part of a vehicle body, a rear suspension cross member extends along the direction of vehicle width beneath the floor, and the battery mounting base is located within an area of the floor, the area being a zone of width L in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body corresponding to the location of the rear suspension cross member in plan view.
Claims9
A structure for installing an automotive battery in which the battery is mounted on a battery mounting base provided on a floor in a rear part of a vehicle body, wherein:
- a rear suspension cross member extends along the direction of vehicle width beneath the floor;
- and
- the battery mounting base is located within an area of the floor corresponding to the location of the rear suspension cross member in plan view.
A structure for installing an automotive battery in which the battery is mounted on a battery mounting base provided on a floor in a rear part of a vehicle body, wherein:
- a rear suspension cross member extends along the direction of vehicle width beneath the floor;
- and wherein
- the battery mounting base includes
- a battery mounting surface on which the battery is mounted;
- a front surface part extending downward from a front edge of the battery mounting surface and connected to the floor in its area corresponding to the location of the rear suspension cross member in plan view;
- a rear surface part extending downward from a rear edge of the battery mounting surface with a lower end of the rear surface part connected to the floor at the rear of the rear suspension cross member in plan view;
- and
- a first physically weak portion formed in the front surface part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.