US 12,220,979 B2
Support device for vehicle battery pack and electric vehicle
Shigeru Okonogi, Kanagawa (JP); Mahaganesh Rajakutty, Tamil Nadu (IN); Vigneshwar Gunasekaran, Tamil Nadu (IN); Kesavan Ganapathy, Tamil Nadu (IN); and Guru Prasad Reddy, Tamil Nadu (IN)
Assigned to Daimler Truck AG, Leinfelden-Echterdingen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/774,775
Filed by Daimler AG, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Aug. 27, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/032288
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 5, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/090554, PCT Pub. Date May 14, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-201687 (JP), filed on Nov. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0388385 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B62D 21/02 (2006.01); H01M 50/204 (2021.01); H01M 50/249 (2021.01); H01M 50/262 (2021.01)
CPC B60K 1/04 (2013.01) [B62D 21/02 (2013.01); H01M 50/204 (2021.01); H01M 50/249 (2021.01); H01M 50/262 (2021.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A support device for a vehicle battery pack, the support device being configured to support a battery pack including: a first battery accommodating portion arranged in a first space between a pair of side rails constituting a ladder frame of a vehicle; a second battery accommodating portion arranged in a second space below the first space and continuous with the first battery accommodating portion; and batteries accommodated in the first battery accommodating portion and the second battery accommodating portion, the support device comprising:
a frame-side bracket having first brackets extending from each of the side rails outward in a vehicle width direction and downward, and a second bracket extending in the vehicle width direction and connecting the first brackets to each other below the battery pack;
a battery-side bracket projecting from an end surface on an outer side in the vehicle width direction of the second battery accommodating portion outward in the vehicle width direction; and
an elastic coupling portion elastically connecting the frame-side bracket and the battery-side bracket.