US 12,220,978 B2
Vehicle body structure
Satoshi Yaita, Wako (JP); Ken Yasui, Wako (JP); Yu Iemura, Wako (JP); Satoru Kawabe, Wako (JP); and Masaaki Tatsuwaki, Wako (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/590,845.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-021808 (JP), filed on Feb. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0258585 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. B62D 21/15 (2006.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); H01M 50/244 (2021.01); H01M 50/249 (2021.01)
CPC B60K 1/04 (2013.01) [B62D 21/15 (2013.01); H01M 50/244 (2021.01); H01M 50/249 (2021.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle body structure, comprising:
a battery case that is disposed below a floor panel of a vehicle body and houses a battery; and
a case-mounting frame that connects the battery case to a side sill provided on a side of the battery case in a vehicle width direction to support the battery case,
wherein the case-mounting frame comprises
a lower frame that straddles between the side sill and the battery case, and
an upper frame that rises from the lower frame, supports the battery case, and is disposed side by side with the battery case in the vehicle width direction,
the lower frame includes a fragile portion that is provided at a first position located below the upper frame and is more fragile than another position of the case-mounting frame other than the first position,
the lower frame includes:
a first horizontal portion that extends inward in the vehicle width direction from the side sill;
a first rising portion that is bent and extends upward from an inner end of the first horizontal portion in the vehicle width direction;
a second horizontal portion that extends outward in the vehicle width direction from the battery case; and
a second rising portion that is bent and extends upward from an outer end of the second horizontal portion in the vehicle width direction, and
the upper frame includes a frame body that straddles between an end of the first rising portion opposite the first horizontal portion and an end of the second rising portion opposite the second horizontal portion and is provided to protrude upward in a C shape in which a lower side opens.