Vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9630486-B2
Application number	US-201415100539-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 2, 2014
Priority date	Dec 2, 2013
Publication date	Apr 25, 2017
Grant date	Apr 25, 2017

Abstract

A vehicle including a mounted object, which is supported by a framework member of the vehicle with a supporting member and which is disposed offset to one side of the vehicle with respect to a center of the vehicle in a front-rear direction, wherein the mounted object includes an extending portion that extends from the mounted object while inclined to a vertical direction or that extends from the mounted object in a horizontal direction, and that is formed such that, when an external force of a predetermined value or larger is exerted on the mounted object from the one side to displace the mounted object to the other side by a predetermined amount or larger, the extending portion abuts on a surface of the right-left framework member, the surface facing upward in the vertical direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle comprising a mounted object, which is supported by a framework member of the vehicle with a supporting member and which is disposed offset to one side of the vehicle with respect to a center of the vehicle in a front-rear direction, wherein
the framework member includes a pair of front-rear framework members that extends in the front-rear direction of the vehicle, and a right-left framework member that extends in a right-left direction of the vehicle and that is fixed to the pair of front-rear framework members;
the supporting member is fixed to the right-left framework;
the mounted object is disposed on the one side with respect to the right-left framework member; and
the mounted object comprises an extending portion that extends from the mounted object while inclined to a vertical direction or that extends from the mounted object in a horizontal direction, and
that is formed such that, when an external force of a predetermined value or larger is exerted on the mounted object from the one side to displace the mounted object to another side by a predetermined amount or larger, the extending portion abuts on a surface of the right-left framework member, the surface facing upward in the vertical direction,
the vehicle, further comprising another right-left framework member that is disposed in parallel with the right-left framework member to sandwich the mounted object therebetween, and that is fixed to the pair of front-rear framework members.

2. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
the extending portion is formed such that, when the external force of the predetermined value or larger is exerted on the mounted object from the one side to displace the mounted object to the another side by the predetermined amount or larger, the extending portion abuts on a surface of the right-left framework member in a state where the mounted object is supported by the supporting member, the surface facing upward in the vertical direction.

3. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein:
the supporting member includes a first supporting member and a second supporting member;
the mounted object includes fixing portions that are fixed to the first supporting member and the second supporting member; and
a first fixing portion of the fixing portions, the first fixing portion being disposed relatively closer to the one side, is disposed at a higher position in the vertical direction than a second fixing portion of the fixing portions, the second fixing portion being disposed closer to the another side.

4. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
the right-left framework member comprises a portion configured to extend from the right-left framework member toward the mounted object.

5. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
the supporting member is fixed to a lower side of the right-left framework member.

6. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
the extending portion extends in an approximately horizontal direction.

7. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
the extending portion includes a protruding portion that extends further from a distal end of the extending portion.

8. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
the mounted object is a motor that drives a wheel of the vehicle.

9. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
the extending portion includes two extending portions that are disposed on a right side and a left side with respect to a center of the mounted object in the right-left direction.

10. The vehicle according to claim 9 , wherein
the two extending portions are disposed in approximately symmetrical positions with respect to the center in the right-left direction.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yamada Satoshi
• Yazaki Manabu
• Ono Koichi

Classifications

• B60K17/046

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• Y10S903/906

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• B60Y2200/92

  Hybrid vehicles · CPC title

• Y10S903/951

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• B60K2006/266

  with two coaxial motors or generators · CPC title