Battery protection structure for automobile
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKoji Saeki
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Abstract
A battery protection structure for an automobile includes a rocker placed in a side portion of a body, a floor panel whose outer end in a body width direction is secured to the rocker, a reinforcement located more inward in the body width direction than the rocker, and secured to the floor panel, the reinforcement forming a part of a frame of the body, a battery located more inward in the body width direction than the rocker, and placed below the floor panel in the body, and an input member that connects between the rocker and the reinforcement, and configured to input, upon input of a collision load directed inward in the body width direction to the rocker, a part of the collision load to a midsection of the floor panel between the rocker and the reinforcement as a component directed upward of the body.
Claims18
A battery protection structure for an automobile, comprising:
- a rocker that is placed in a side portion of a body of the automobile;
- a floor panel whose outer end in a body width direction is secured to the rocker;
- a reinforcement that is located more inward in the body width direction than the rocker, and is secured to the floor panel, the reinforcement forming a part of a frame of the body;
- a battery that is located more inward in the body width direction than the rocker, and is placed below the floor panel and the reinforcement in the body;
- a fragile portion located above the battery between the rocker and the reinforcement, and including at least one portion that is more inward in the body width direction than an end of the battery;
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- an input member that connects between the rocker and the reinforcement, and is configured to input, upon input of a collision load directed inward in the body width direction to the rocker, a part of the collision load to a midsection of the floor panel between the rocker and the reinforcement as a component directed upward of the body such that a portion of the floor panel above the end of the battery deforms in a rotation mode along a rotation trajectory away from the battery.
A battery protection structure for an automobile, comprising:
- a rocker that is placed in a side portion of a body of the automobile;
- a floor panel whose outer end in a body width direction is secured to the rocker;
- a reinforcement that is located more inward in the body width direction than the rocker, and is secured to the floor panel, the reinforcement forming a part of a frame of the body;
- a battery that is located more inward in the body width direction than the rocker, and is placed below the floor panel and the reinforcement in the body;
- a fragile portion located above the battery between the rocker and the reinforcement, and including at least one portion that is more inward in the body width direction than an end of the battery;
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- an input member that connects between the rocker and the reinforcement, and is joined to the floor panel,
- wherein a midsection of the input member is flexed in the body width direction so as to rise toward an upper side of the body by a collision load inputted to the rocker and directed inward in the body width direction such that a portion of the input member above the end of the battery rotates toward the upper side of the body away from the battery.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.