US 12,233,696 B2
Power line routing structure in hybrid vehicle
Shoji Tanizawa, Tokyo (JP); Yusuke Okada, Tokyo (JP); and Masaharu Yamagishi, Okazaki (JP)
Assigned to MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/761,405
Filed by MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Nov. 9, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/041652
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 17, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/166337, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-026519 (JP), filed on Feb. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0371420 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B60K 6/40 (2007.10); B60K 11/04 (2006.01); H02G 3/30 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 1/04 (2013.01) [B60K 6/40 (2013.01); B60K 11/04 (2013.01); H02G 3/30 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0405 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hybrid vehicle comprising:
a fuel tank disposed in a tank storage section formed between left and right side members on a lower side of a floor of a vehicle body;
a driving battery disposed in a battery storage section aligned with the tank storage section in a front-rear direction across a cross member connecting between the left and right side members;
a driving motor disposed on an opposite side of the battery storage section in the front-rear direction of the vehicle with respect to the tank storage section; and
a power line that supplies power from the driving battery to the driving motor, wherein
part of the tank storage section includes the left and right side members and the cross members, and
the power line is extended along a side wall of either one of the left and right side members from a side wall of the cross member so as to bypass the fuel tank via either one of the left and right sides of the fuel tank from a terminal block of the driving battery and an extra length area with slack being formed in an area of the power line along the side wall of the cross member.