Polarized battery tray for a vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10483510-B2
Application number	US-201815981654-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 16, 2018
Priority date	May 16, 2017
Publication date	Nov 19, 2019
Grant date	Nov 19, 2019

Abstract

A battery tray for a vehicle includes two tray components or pieces that attach or mate together, such as with one tray component over or within the other tray component, to form sealed and separate battery containment areas. The lower tray component that has a panel portion and a pair of elongated reinforcement members integrally protruding upward from opposing edges of the panel portion. Also, the upper tray component has a panel portion and a cross members that integrally extend across its panel portion. The upper tray component is disposed at an upper surface of the panel portion of the lower tray component with the cross members extending between the elongated reinforcement members and defining a battery containment area between each of the cross members.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A battery tray for a vehicle, said battery tray comprising:
a first tray component having a first panel portion and elongated reinforcement members integrally coupled at opposing edges of the first panel portion and extending in parallel alignment with each other;
a second tray component having a second panel portion and a plurality of cross members integrally extending across the second panel portion;
wherein the second panel portion is disposed at an upper surface of the first panel portion with the plurality of cross members extending between the elongated reinforcement members so as to provide a battery containment area between the plurality of cross members; and
wherein opposing ends of the plurality of cross members directly engage inside surfaces of the elongated reinforcement members to provide the battery containment area with an interior peripheral surface.

2. The battery tray of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of cross members are disposed substantially perpendicularly relative to the elongated reinforcement members.

3. The battery tray of claim 2 , wherein the plurality of cross members extend linearly and substantially parallel relative to each other.

4. The battery tray of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first and second tray components comprises a substantially constant cross-section along a length of the respective elongated reinforcement members and plurality of cross members.

5. The battery tray of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first and second tray components comprises a single integral piece fabricated from a first material disposed at an upper section of the respective tray component and a second material disposed at a lower section of the respective tray component, and wherein the first material includes carbon fiber and the second material includes at least one of aramid or glass.

6. The battery tray of claim 1 , wherein the first tray component comprises a constant cross-section along a length of the elongated reinforcement members and the second tray component comprises a constant cross-section along a length off the plurality of cross members, and wherein the lengths of the first and second tray components are disposed in an orthogonal orientation relative to each other.

7. The battery tray of claim 1 , wherein the side reinforcement members each include a multi-tubular shape with at least two elongated hollow cavities extending longitudinally along a length of the reinforcement members.

8. The battery tray of claim 1 , wherein front and rear cross members of the plurality of cross members are attached via an adhesive or a sealer at inside surfaces of the elongated reinforcement members.

9. A battery tray for a vehicle, said battery tray comprising:
a first tray component having a first panel portion and a pair of elongated reinforcement members integrally protruding upward from opposing edges of the first panel portion;
a second tray component having a second panel portion and a plurality of cross members disposed at an upper surface of the second panel portion with the plurality of cross members extending between the elongated reinforcement members; and
wherein opposing ends of front and rear cross members of the plurality of cross members directly engage inside surfaces of the pair of elongated reinforcement members to form a peripheral wall of a battery containment area.

10. The battery tray of claim 9 , wherein the plurality of cross members each comprise a length that is oriented perpendicularly relative to a length of the pair of elongated reinforcement members.

11. The battery tray of claim 9 , wherein the first tray component comprises a substantially constant cross-section along a length of the pair of elongated reinforcement members.

12. The battery tray of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of cross members each comprise a substantially constant cross-section along a length of the respective cross member, and wherein the lengths of the plurality of cross members are oriented perpendicularly relative to a length of the pair of elongated reinforcement members.

13. The battery tray of claim 9 , wherein the first panel portion and the pair of elongated reinforcement members of the tray component are fabricated together to comprise a single integral piece.

14. The battery tray of claim 13 , wherein the single integral piece of the first tray component comprises a first material disposed at an upper section of the first tray component and a second material disposed at a lower section of the first tray component, and wherein the first material includes carbon fiber disposed at the pair of elongated reinforcement members and the second material includes at least one of aramid and glass disposed at the panel portion.

15. The battery tray of claim 9 , wherein the pair of side reinforcement members each include a multi-tubular shape with at least two elongated hollow cavities extending along a length of the respective side reinforcement member.

16. The battery tray of claim 9 , wherein front and rear cross members of the plurality of cross members are directly engaged via an adhesive or a sealer at inside surfaces of the pair of elongated reinforcement members.

17. The battery tray of claim 9 , wherein the tray component comprises a constant cross-section along a length of the elongated reinforcement members, and wherein a floor panel is disposed over the panel portion of the tray component and integrally interconnects the plurality of cross members, and wherein the length of the elongated reinforcement members are disposed in an orthogonal orientation relative to a length of the plurality of cross members.

18. A battery tray for a vehicle, said battery tray comprising:
a first tray component having a first panel portion and a plurality of cross members integrally extending across the first panel portion;
a second tray component having a second panel portion and a pair of elongated reinforcement members; and
wherein upright surfaces of the pair of elongated reinforcement members directly engage opposing ends of the plurality of cross members so as to provide a sealed peripheral wall around a battery containment area disposed above the panel portion of the tray component.

19. The battery tray of claim 18 , wherein the first tray component is pultruded or extruded as a single integral piece having a constant cross-section along a length of the plurality of cross members, and wherein the plurality of cross members extend substantially perpendicularly relative to the pair of elongated reinforcement members.

20. The battery tray of claim 19 , wherein the second tray component is pultruded having a first material disposed at an upper section of the second tray component and a second material disposed at a lower section of the second tray component.

21. The battery tray of claim 18 , wherein the pair of side reinforcement members each include a tubular shape with at least one elongated hollow cavity extending along a length of the respective side reinforcement member.

22. The battery tray of claim 18 , wherein the opposing ends of the plurality of cross members directly engage the pair of elongated reinforcement members via a sealer.

Assignees

• Shape Corp

Inventors

• Stephens Mark Charles
• Matecki Joseph Robert

Classifications

• B60L50/64 Primary

  Constructional details of batteries specially adapted for electric vehicles · CPC title

• B60L50/66

  Arrangements of batteries · CPC title

• H01M2220/20

  Batteries in motive systems, e.g. vehicle, ship, plane · CPC title

• B60R16/04

  Arrangement of batteries · CPC title

• H01M2/1077

  Electricity · mapped topic