US 12,227,229 B2
Electric-vehicle-body structure including a motor on a vehicle front side
Takuma Inami, Hiroshima (JP); Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroshima (JP); Hiroyuki Baba, Hiroshima (JP); and Hiroaki Fujii, Hiroshima (JP)
Assigned to MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed by Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed on Sep. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/939,959.
Application 17/939,959 is a continuation of application No. 17/903,197, filed on Sep. 6, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/403,804, filed on Sep. 5, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-161834 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2021; application No. 2021-183258 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2021; application No. 2021-183259 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2021; application No. 2021-183261 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2021; application No. 2021-183318 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2021; application No. 2021-183326 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2021; and application No. 2021-183330 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0094186 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. B62D 25/20 (2006.01); B60K 1/00 (2006.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B62D 21/04 (2006.01); B62D 21/11 (2006.01); B62D 21/15 (2006.01); B62D 25/08 (2006.01); B62D 25/14 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 25/2018 (2013.01) [B62D 25/20 (2013.01); B62D 25/2009 (2013.01); B62D 25/2027 (2013.01); B62D 25/2045 (2013.01); B60K 1/00 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01); B62D 21/04 (2013.01); B62D 21/11 (2013.01); B62D 21/152 (2013.01); B62D 25/082 (2013.01); B62D 25/14 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric-vehicle vehicle-body structure provided in an electric vehicle including a traveling motor and a battery unit that supplies electric power to the traveling motor, the electric-vehicle vehicle-body structure comprising:
a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space including a seat on which a passenger is to sit;
a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of the occupant space and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction;
a dash panel extending upward from a front portion of the floor panel and partitioning a vehicle front portion of the occupant space; and
a connecting member extending upward from the floor panel, having an upper portion fixed to the center frame, and connecting the center frame to the floor panel, wherein
the traveling motor is arranged on a vehicle front side of the connecting member,
the center frame bifurcates in a vehicle width direction at a vehicle-front-rear-direction front-side part and extends to the dash panel, and
a front portion of the center frame is fixed to the dash panel.