US 12,233,699 B2
Vehicle-body structure with improved passenger comfort and vehicle-body stiffness
Takuma Inami, Hiroshima (JP); Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroshima (JP); Hiroyuki Baba, Hiroshima (JP); and Hiroshi Tanaka, Hiroshima (JP)
Assigned to MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed by Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed on Sep. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/938,962.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-161834 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2021; and application No. 2021-183338 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0095674 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
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 25/2009 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle-body structure provided in an electric vehicle comprising a traveling motor, the vehicle-body structure comprising:
a battery and a battery frame,
wherein the battery supplies electric power to the traveling motor, and the battery frame is disposed below a vehicle cabin and extends in a vehicle front-rear direction,
wherein a battery housing portion in which the battery is housed and a battery non-housing portion in which the battery is not housed are provided alongside each other in a vehicle front-rear direction below the vehicle cabin,
wherein the battery frame comprises a first frame portion disposed at the battery housing portion, and a second frame portion disposed at the battery non-housing portion, and
wherein the second frame portion is larger in width than the first frame portion in a vehicle-width direction.