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US 2021/0197898 A1Published application
Vehicle lower section structure
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasaru Toyota
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Abstract
A vehicle lower section structure includes a battery unit that is disposed below a floor panel, a sliding door that is provided to a side section of a vehicle body, and a lower hinge that is attached to a lower portion of the sliding door, that supports the sliding door with respect to the vehicle body such that the sliding door is capable of sliding in a vehicle front-rear direction, and that is disposed further toward a vehicle upper side than the battery unit.
Claims9
A vehicle lower section structure comprising:
- a battery unit disposed at a vehicle lower side of a floor panel;
- a rocker having an upper face;
- a step under-panel disposed between the floor panel and the rocker, the step under-panel includes a vertical wall and a transverse wall, the vertical wall extends upward from the upper face of the rocker, the transverse wall extends toward a vehicle width direction inner side from an upper end portion of the vertical wall;
- a sliding door provided at a side section of a vehicle body;
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- a lower hinge that is disposed further toward a vehicle upper side than the battery unit, that is attached to a lower portion of the sliding door, and that supports the sliding door with respect to the vehicle body so as to be slidable in a vehicle front-rear direction, the lower hinge disposed so as to overlap with the transverse wall of the step under-panel as viewed from above the vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.