US 12,286,019 B2
Vehicle-body structure with a battery cover for improved aerodynamic performance
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. 17/938,956.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-161834 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2021; and application No. 2021-183335 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0101665 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. B60L 50/60 (2019.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B62D 25/20 (2006.01); B62D 35/02 (2006.01)
CPC B60L 50/66 (2019.02) [B60K 1/04 (2013.01); B62D 25/20 (2013.01); B62D 35/02 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle-body structure provided in an electric vehicle comprising a traveling motor, the vehicle-body structure comprising:
a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space comprising a seat on which a passenger sits;
a pair of right and left side sills extending in a vehicle front-rear direction at respective ones of both vehicle-width-direction end portions of the floor panel;
a battery that comprises a battery frame and supplies electric power to the traveling motor, the battery frame being arranged between the pair of right and left side sills and extending in the vehicle front-rear direction;
a routing member that extends in the vehicle front-rear direction on a vehicle-width-direction outer side of the battery frame below the floor panel;
a cover that extends from a lower side of the battery unit to a lower side of the routing member;
battery-frame fixation portions that fix the battery frame to the side sills; and
cover fixation portions that fix vehicle-width-direction end portions of the cover to the side sills,
wherein the routing member and the battery-frame fixation portions are positioned on a vehicle-width-direction inner side of the cover fixation portions.