Vehicle lower portion structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10632827-B2
Application number	US-201815882202-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 29, 2018
Priority date	Mar 23, 2017
Publication date	Apr 28, 2020
Grant date	Apr 28, 2020

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a vehicle lower portion structure including: a case main body portion, disposed at a vehicle lower side of a vehicle cabin floor and including a bottom wall and peripheral walls that extend toward a vehicle upper side from a peripheral edge portion of the bottom wall, and accommodating a battery at an interior thereof; a front portion extending portion formed integrally with the case main body portion at a vehicle front side of the case main body portion, at the peripheral wall that is at a vehicle front side of the case main body portion; and an impact absorbing portion, extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction and deforming due to input of collision load from a vehicle front side, a rear end portion of the impact absorbing portion being connected to a vehicle front side region of the front portion extending portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle lower portion structure comprising:
a case main body portion, disposed at a vehicle lower side of a vehicle cabin floor and including a bottom wall and peripheral walls that extend toward a vehicle upper side from a peripheral edge portion of the bottom wall, the case main body portion accommodating a battery at an interior thereof;
a front portion extending portion formed integrally with the case main body portion at a vehicle front side of the case main body portion, at the peripheral wall that is at a vehicle front side of the case main body portion; and
an impact absorbing portion extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction, a rear end portion of the impact absorbing portion being connected to a vehicle front side region of the front portion extending portion, and the impact absorbing portion being structured so as to deform more easily than the front portion extending portion.

2. The vehicle lower portion structure of claim 1 , wherein the case main body portion is connected to rockers, the rockers extending in the vehicle longitudinal direction at vehicle transverse direction both sides of the case main body portion.

3. The vehicle lower portion structure of claim 1 , wherein a pair of left and right suspension lower arms are mounted swingably to both vehicle transverse direction end portions of the front portion extending portion.

4. The vehicle lower portion structure of claim 1 , wherein the impact absorbing portion includes a pair of left and right under members that extend in the vehicle longitudinal direction, and an under reinforcement that connects front ends of the under members.

5. The vehicle lower portion structure of claim 1 , wherein the front portion extending portion is structured as a left and right pair and extends in the vehicle longitudinal direction.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ajisaka Satoshi

Classifications

• B60K2001/0438

  Arrangement under the floor · CPC title

• B60Y2306/01

  Reducing damages in case of crash, e.g. by improving battery protection · CPC title

• B62D25/2018

  the subunits being front structures · CPC title

• B62D21/152

  Front or rear frames · CPC title

• B60K1/04 Primary

  of the electric storage means for propulsion · CPC title