Vehicle battery mounting structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9511680-B2
Application number	US-201514877289-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 7, 2015
Priority date	Oct 23, 2014
Publication date	Dec 6, 2016
Grant date	Dec 6, 2016

Abstract

The present invention provides a vehicle battery mounting structure including: a lower frame made of fiber-reinforced resin that has a first open portion for water drainage and configures, together with an upper frame, a battery frame that supports a battery; a lower reinforcement made of metal that has a second open portion for water drainage having a smaller open area than the first open portion, the lower reinforcement being joined to the lower frame in a state in which the second open portion is communicated with the first open portion; and an insulating grommet that is formed in the shape of a ring having an upper flange and a lower flange and that is disposed at the lower reinforcement as a result of a peripheral edge portion configuring the second open portion of the lower reinforcement being fitted between the upper flange and the lower flange.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle battery mounting structure, comprising:
a lower frame made of fiber-reinforced resin that has a first open portion for water drainage, the lower frame configuring, together with an upper frame, a battery frame that supports a battery;
a lower reinforcement made of metal that has a second open portion for water drainage having a smaller open area than the first open portion, the lower reinforcement being joined to the lower frame in a state in which the second open portion is communicated with the first open portion; and
an insulating grommet that is formed in the shape of a ring having an upper flange and a lower flange,
wherein a peripheral edge portion configuring the second open portion of the lower reinforcement is fitted between the upper flange and the lower flange, and
the insulating grommet is disposed at the lower reinforcement.

2. The vehicle battery mounting structure according to claim 1 , wherein:
the lower reinforcement is joined by an adhesive to an upper surface of the lower frame; and
an outer rim portion of the lower flange is covered by the adhesive, which has protruded out toward the first open portion.

3. The vehicle battery mounting structure according to claim 1 , wherein surfaces of an outer rim portion of the upper flange and an outer rim portion of the lower flange that are not in contact with the lower reinforcement are each sloping surfaces.

4. The vehicle battery mounting structure according to claim 1 , wherein:
the grommet is equipped with a cylinder portion;
the upper flange is integrally disposed, extending outward in a radial direction, at an upper end portion of the cylinder portion;
the lower flange is integrally disposed, extending outward in the radial direction, at a lower end portion of the cylinder portion; and
the cylinder portion is inserted into the second open portion.

5. The vehicle battery mounting structure according to claim 4 , wherein the grommet is made of rubber and is elastically deformable.

6. The vehicle battery mounting structure according claim 4 , wherein an outer diameter of the cylinder portion is the same as an inner diameter of the second open portion.

7. The vehicle battery mounting structure according to claim 2 , wherein a distal end portion of the lower reinforcement that is joined, by the adhesive, on the upper surface of the lower frame is covered by the adhesive, which has protruded out from the distal end portion of the lower reinforcement and swollen up from the upper surface of the lower frame.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hokazono Kiyoshi
• Yoshimoto Kenichiro
• Matsuno Takeharu
• Hirata Shingo

Classifications

• Y02E60/10

  Energy storage using batteries · CPC title

• B60K1/04 Primary

  of the electric storage means for propulsion · CPC title

• B60L11/1877 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B60L50/66

  Arrangements of batteries · CPC title

• Y02T10/70

  Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries · CPC title