Vehicle battery mounting structure
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasakazu Shirooka, Akihiro Hirota
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Abstract
In a vehicle battery mounting structure, each sidewall of a bracket body has a load-receiving portion extending obliquely from the vehicle vertical direction upper end of a base portion toward the vehicle vertical direction lower end of a flat wall. The load-receiving portion is located between a rear wall and an intermediate beam. Thus, when the intermediate beam is moving toward the vehicle longitudinal direction front side during a rear collision, or the like, a front wall of the intermediate beam smashes against the load-receiving portion.
Claims8
1-8. (canceled)
A vehicle battery mounting structure, comprising:
- a battery frame is arranged on a vehicle longitudinal direction front side of a connection beam, extending in a lateral direction of a vehicle, via which a pair of rear suspensions are connected to each other, and supports a battery under a floor of the vehicle;
- a rear wall that is provided at the battery frame and is arranged, along the lateral direction of the vehicle, between the battery and the connection beam;
- and
- a load-receiving portion that is provided at the rear wall, is arranged between the rear wall and the connection beam, and is attached on a body of the vehicle,
- wherein the connection beam has, as viewed externally in the lateral direction of the vehicle, an inverted-V-shaped open cross section having an opening at a vehicle vertical direction lower side;
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- an inclination angle of the load-receiving portion with respect to a horizontal plane is larger than an inclination angle, with respect to the horizontal plane, of the connection beam on a side thereof closer to the load-receiving portion.
The vehicle battery mounting structure according to claim 1, wherein the load-receiving portion is, as viewed externally in the lateral direction of the vehicle, inclined such that a vehicle vertical direction upper end of the load-receiving portion is located on a vehicle longitudinal direction rear side of a vehicle vertical direction lower end of the load-receiving portion.
The vehicle battery mounting structure according to claim 1, wherein the upper end of the load-receiving portion is located on a vehicle vertical direction upper side of a vehicle vertical direction upper end of the connection beam.
The vehicle battery mounting structure according to claim 1, wherein the lower end of the load-receiving portion is located on a vehicle vertical direction lower side of a vehicle vertical direction lower end of the connection beam.
The vehicle battery mounting structure according to claim 1, wherein the rear wall has a projecting portion that projects toward a vehicle longitudinal direction rear side and is formed such that a space is defined between the battery and the projecting portion.
The vehicle battery mounting structure according to claim 6, wherein the projecting portion projects toward the vehicle longitudinal direction rear side more than the load-receiving portion does.
The vehicle battery mounting structure according to claim 7, wherein the projecting portion is provided at a vehicle lateral direction middle portion of the rear wall, and the load-receiving portion is provided at each of both sides of the projecting portion in the lateral direction of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.