US 11,752,851 B2
Vehicle battery with adhesive connections
Naoki Takahashi, Miyoshi (JP); Takuya Hirota, Toyota (JP); and Shunji Shibata, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP); and SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP); and SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/475,517.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-156552 (JP), filed on Sep. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0080820 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. B60K 1/02 (2006.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B62D 21/11 (2006.01); B60L 50/60 (2019.01); B62D 27/02 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 1/04 (2013.01) [B60L 50/66 (2019.02); B62D 21/11 (2013.01); B62D 27/026 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle that includes a traction motor, the vehicle comprising:
a vehicle body provided with a pair of rockers, the rockers each being provided on an outer side of a floor panel in a vehicle width direction;
a battery pack configured to store electric power to be supplied to the traction motor, the battery pack being disposed below the floor panel; and
a pair of fixing members configured to fix the battery pack to the rockers, the fixing members each being disposed on an outer side of the battery pack in the vehicle width direction, and the fixing members being configured to be joined to the battery pack by a plurality of adhesion members, the adhesion members being intermittently positioned along a vehicle length direction of the vehicle, wherein:
the battery pack is provided with a case configured to store a plurality of battery stacks;
the case is provided with:
a pair of side walls configured to face the fixing members; and
a reinforcement configured to connect the side walls, the reinforcement extending in the vehicle width direction within the case;
the adhesion members are positioned in at least a part of a second region that is a part of one face of the side walls, the one face of the side walls configured to join to the fixing members, the second region being a region at a position corresponding to a first region that is a part of the other face of the side walls, the first region being a region configured such that the reinforcement is connected;
a joining region at which the side walls and the fixing members are joined is configured to extend along the vehicle length direction of the vehicle on at least a part of the side walls; and
the adhesion members include:
a first adhesion member positioned in the second region in a vehicle-upper side region of the joining region;
a second adhesion member positioned in a region other than the second region at a vehicle-lower side as compared to the first adhesion member; and
a third adhesion member configured such that one end of the third adhesion member is positioned rearward in the vehicle length direction of the vehicle on a vehicle-upward side or a vehicle-downward side with respect to the other end of the third adhesion member such that the third adhesion member is oblique with respect to a front-rear direction.