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US 2016/0257346 A1Published application
Energy absorbing rocker assembly
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsChi-Chin Wu, Abdelmonaam Sassi, Lawrence Bis
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Abstract
An exemplary rocker assembly includes a vehicle rocker at a lateral side of a vehicle, and a battery rocker at a lateral side of a battery pack of the vehicle. An exemplary energy absorbing method includes directing a first portion of a side load through a first load path that extends through a vehicle rocker at a lateral side of a vehicle, and directing a second portion of the side load through a second load path that extends through a battery rocker at a lateral side of a battery pack.
Claims22
A vehicle assembly, comprising:
- a battery pack having a laterally facing wall with a flange extending laterally from the laterally facing wall;
- a vehicle rocker at a lateral side of a vehicle;
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- a battery rocker separate and distinct from the battery pack, the battery rocker at least partially secured to the laterally facing wall such that the flange laterally overlaps a portion of the battery rocker.
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An energy absorbing method, comprising:
- directing a first portion of a side load through a first load path that extends through a vehicle rocker at a lateral side of a vehicle;
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- directing a second portion of the side load through a second load path that extends through a battery rocker at a lateral side of a battery pack, the second portion of the side load collapsing the battery rocker independently from the battery pack,
- wherein the battery pack has a laterally facing wall and a flange extending laterally from the laterally facing wall, and the battery rocker is at least partially secured to the laterally facing wall such that the flange laterally overlaps a portion of the battery rocker.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.