Support Device for Drive Battery

Abstract

A support device for a drive battery mounted on an electric vehicle includes a bracket that covers a front side or a rear side of the drive battery and that has a squared C-shaped cross section comprising a side face part having a depressed face part depressed against the drive battery and a projecting face part projecting toward the drive battery, an upper face part, and a lower face part. An installing member that installs a component of the electric vehicle is attached to the depressed face part and a tip part of the installing member projecting from the depressed face part to the drive battery is arranged at a position departing from an outer face of a housing of the drive battery further to the depressed face part than an apex face of the projecting face part or at a position flush with the apex face.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.