Structure for installing an automotive battery
AssigneeFuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTsutomu Iwase
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Abstract
A structure for installing an automotive battery which would protect the battery installed in a rear part of a vehicle body is provided. In a structure for installing an automotive battery in which the battery is mounted on a battery mounting base provided on a floor in a rear part of a vehicle body, a rear suspension cross member extends along the direction of vehicle width beneath the floor, and the battery mounting base is located within an area of the floor, the area being a zone of width L in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body corresponding to the location of the rear suspension cross member in plan view.
Claims4
A structure for installing an automotive battery in which the battery is mounted on a battery mounting base provided on a floor in a rear part of a vehicle body, wherein:
- a rear suspension cross member extends along the direction of vehicle width beneath the floor;
- and wherein,
- the battery mounting base includes;
- a battery mounting surface on which the battery is mounted;
- a front surface part extending downward from a front edge of the battery mounting surface and connected to the floor in within one area of the floor corresponding to the location of the rear suspension cross member in plan view;
- a rear surface part extending downward from a rear edge of the battery mounting surface toward a lower end of the rear surface part connected to the floor at a rear side of the rear suspension cross member in plan view;
- and
- a first physically weak portion formed in the front surface part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.