US 11,919,570 B2
Lower structure of electric vehicle
Masanao Sato, Hiroshima (JP); Katsutoshi Noguchi, Hiroshima (JP); Tomokazu Murakami, Hiroshima (JP); and Yudai Kawaguchi, Hiroshima (JP)
Assigned to MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed by Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed on Feb. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/665,592.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-053425 (JP), filed on Mar. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0306204 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. B62D 21/11 (2006.01); B60K 1/00 (2006.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B60K 5/00 (2006.01); B60K 11/02 (2006.01); B60R 16/02 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 21/11 (2013.01) [B60K 1/00 (2013.01); B60K 1/04 (2013.01); B60K 5/00 (2013.01); B60K 11/02 (2013.01); B60R 16/0215 (2013.01); B60K 2001/005 (2013.01); B60K 2001/006 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A lower structure of an electric vehicle on which a high-voltage driving battery is mounted and which can travel by using electric power thereof, the lower structure of the electric vehicle comprising:
a floor panel that expands in a lower portion of a cabin;
a dashboard that continues from a front edge portion of the floor panel and divides a front portion of the cabin;
a front subframe that has a right and left pair of side frame sections, each of which extends in a front-rear direction at a position in front of the dashboard, and a rear end portion of each which is located below the dashboard;
a specified high-voltage component that is connected to the high-voltage battery and is arranged along a lower surface of the floor panel and at a position behind a rear end portion of one of the side frame sections; and
a specified vehicle component that is arranged adjacent to rear of the high-voltage component, wherein
adjacent to a rear end portion of the high-voltage component, wherein the high-voltage component is arranged in a vertically inclined state, a front-end portion of the high-voltage component is located higher than the rear end portion of the side frame section, and the rear end portion of the high-voltage component is located lower than the vehicle component.