US 12,291,092 B2
Power storage device
Yutaroh Gotoh, Toyota (JP); Yukinari Tanabe, Okazaki (JP); and Yugo Mochizuki, Nisshin (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Dec. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/400,571.
Application 18/400,571 is a continuation of application No. 17/387,306, filed on Jul. 28, 2021, granted, now 11,897,322.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-129306 (JP), filed on Jul. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0140186 A1, May 2, 2024
Int. Cl. B60K 1/04 (2019.01); H01M 10/61 (2014.01); H01M 10/625 (2014.01); H01M 10/6569 (2014.01); B60K 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 1/04 (2013.01) [H01M 10/61 (2015.04); H01M 10/625 (2015.04); H01M 10/6569 (2015.04); B60K 2001/005 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle comprising:
a first body frame member extending in a front-back direction of the vehicle;
a second body frame member extending in the front-back direction of the vehicle, the second body frame member spaced apart from the first body frame member in a vehicle width direction; and
a power storage device having a power storage module, a housing case that houses the power storage module, and a cooler that cools the power storage module, at least part of the power storage device being located between the first body frame member and the second body frame member,
wherein the housing case includes:
a bottom plate having a top surface and an opposite bottom surface, the bottom surface of the bottom plate forms a lower surface of the housing case;
a first side wall portion located on a first side end of the housing case in the vehicle width direction, the first side wall portion extends upwardly from the bottom plate;
a second side wall portion located on a second side end of the housing case in the vehicle width direction, the second side wall portion extends upwardly from the bottom plate;
a first fixed member fixed to an outer surface side of the first side wall portion; and
a second fixed member fixed to an outer surface side of the second side wall portion, wherein the first side wall portion includes a plurality of first hollow portions arranged in a vertical direction of the vehicle, each of the plurality of first hollow portions extending in the front-back direction of the vehicle,
wherein the second side wall portion includes a plurality of second hollow portions arranged in the vertical direction of the vehicle, each of the plurality of second hollow portions extending in the front-back direction of the vehicle,
wherein the first fixed member is fixed to the first body frame member and the second fixed member is fixed to the second body frame member to fix the housing case to the first body frame member and the second body frame member.