Vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNobuyasu NISHIKI
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a power storage device and an exhaust pipe, in which the power storage device includes an accommodation case and a seal member that seals a joint portion between an upper cover and a lower casing, the accommodation case includes a front wall portion and a rear wall portion, and a first side wall portion and a second side wall portion, and the exhaust pipe is disposed adjacent to the second side wall portion. The vehicle further includes a flow path defining portion that is provided outside of the accommodation case and that defines a flow path that extends along a portion of the joint portion positioned on a front wall portion side and that has an air inlet portion and an air outlet portion, and the air inlet portion is positioned at a position farther from the exhaust pipe than the air outlet portion.
Claims8
A vehicle comprising:
- a power storage device;
- and
- an exhaust pipe that extends along a vehicle front-rear direction, a part of the exhaust pipe being disposed on a side of the power storage device, wherein:
- the power storage device includes an accommodation case including an upper cover and a lower casing, and a seal member configured to seal a joint portion between the upper cover and the lower casing;
- the accommodation case includes a front wall portion and a rear wall portion that are spaced apart from each other in the vehicle front-rear direction, and a first side wall portion and a second side wall portion that are spaced apart from each other in a vehicle width direction;
- the exhaust pipe is disposed on the second side wall portion side;
- the vehicle further includes a flow path defining portion provided outside the accommodation case, the flow path defining portion being configured to define a flow path that extends along a portion of the joint portion positioned on the front wall portion side and that has an air inlet portion and an air outlet portion;
- and
- the air inlet portion is positioned at a position farther from the exhaust pipe than the air outlet portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.