US 12,280,647 B2
Vehicle mounted structure for battery pack
Keiichiro Ota, Kanagawa (JP); Hideki Koike, Kanagawa (JP); and Shinichi Matano, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama (JP)
Appl. No. 17/632,252
Filed by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 24, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/006837
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 2, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/180675, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 1, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0158878 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B60K 1/00 (2006.01); H01M 10/613 (2014.01); H01M 10/625 (2014.01); H01M 10/6556 (2014.01); H01M 10/6568 (2014.01); H01M 50/227 (2021.01); H01M 50/262 (2021.01); B60L 50/64 (2019.01)
CPC B60K 1/04 (2013.01) [H01M 10/613 (2015.04); H01M 10/625 (2015.04); H01M 10/6556 (2015.04); H01M 10/6568 (2015.04); H01M 50/227 (2021.01); H01M 50/262 (2021.01); B60K 2001/005 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01); B60L 50/64 (2019.02); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle mounted structure of a battery pack mounted to a floor of a vehicle cabin, the vehicle mounted structure comprising:
a bottom plate of a housing of the battery pack;
a plurality of cooling pipes provided to the bottom plate for circulating coolant; and
a plate-shaped underguard provided below the bottom plate,
the plate-shaped underguard having upwardly protruding ribs, bulges, and downwardly protruding ribs, each upwardly protruding rib or bulge is alternately arranged with each downwardly protruding rib,
the cooling pipes being arranged to face the downwardly protruding ribs,
the plate-shaped underguard being attached to the housing such that an upper plate of the upwardly protruding ribs and a bottom surface of the bottom plate are spaced apart from each other without any other structure therebetween, and
each of the bulges contacting the bottom surface of the bottom plate and being configured to receive a fastener to secure the plate-shaped underguard to the bottom plate.