US 12,187,110 B2
Body structure for an electrically operated vehicle
Thomas Schilling, Sassenburg (DE); Nicole Wallmann, Knesebeck (DE); Ingo Lueken, Tappenbeck (DE); and Werner Krauth, Wolfsburg (DE)
Assigned to Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg (DE)
Filed by Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg (DE)
Filed on Jan. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/584,072.
Application 17/584,072 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2020/066020, filed on Jun. 10, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 211 108.4 (DE), filed on Jul. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0144067 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B60L 50/60 (2019.01); B62D 25/20 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 1/04 (2013.01) [B60L 50/66 (2019.02); B62D 25/2036 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A body structure for an electrically operated vehicle, the body structure comprising:
an installation space for a traction battery, the installation space being open toward a vehicle bottom in a vertical vehicle direction and is closed toward a vehicle top by a floor pan part that forms a vehicle floor and is delimited on both sides in a vehicle transverse direction by a rocker panel that delimits a side-door opening toward the vehicle bottom; and
a rear body longitudinal member that transitions into a respective rocker panel toward a vehicle front in a longitudinal vehicle direction and extends on each vehicle side in a rear end region,
wherein a rear corner of the traction battery is enclosed by an interior corner region that is right-angled and that stretches between the respective rocker panel and a rear battery cross member,
wherein the respective rocker panel on each side of the vehicle is offset toward the exterior of the vehicle with respect to the rear body longitudinal member by a lateral offset in the vehicle transverse direction,
wherein a rear corner joint adjoins the rear body longitudinal member toward the vehicle front in the longitudinal vehicle direction, the rear corner joint being widened toward the vehicle front in the longitudinal vehicle direction taking up a lateral offset, and the rear corner joint being connected to the respective rocker panel in a force-transmitting manner at a rocker panel connecting point, and
wherein the rear body longitudinal member is a profile part having a U-shaped profile in cross-section with a longitudinal member floor as well as inner and outer side walls raised therefrom, and wherein the U-shaped profile of the rear body longitudinal member, which is open toward a top, is closed in an assembled state by the floor pan part, and wherein the outer side wall of the rear body longitudinal member delimits a wheel space of a rear-end wheel well toward an interior of the vehicle.