US 12,319,356 B2
Electric-vehicle-body structure having a center frame that is higher than a floor panel
Takuma Inami, Hiroshima (JP); Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroshima (JP); and Hiroyuki Baba, Hiroshima (JP)
Assigned to MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed by Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed on Sep. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/938,966.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/403,872, filed on Sep. 6, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-161834 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2021; application No. 2021-183238 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2021; application No. 2021-183245 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2021; application No. 2021-183251 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2021; application No. 2021-183312 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2021; and application No. 2021-183323 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0112413 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. B62D 25/20 (2006.01); B60H 1/00 (2006.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B60N 2/005 (2006.01); B62D 21/17 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 25/2009 (2013.01) [B62D 25/20 (2013.01); B62D 25/2018 (2013.01); B62D 25/2027 (2013.01); B62D 25/2045 (2013.01); B60H 1/00564 (2013.01); B60K 1/04 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01); B60N 2/005 (2013.01); B62D 21/17 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric-vehicle-body structure provided in an electric vehicle including a traveling motor and a battery that supplies electric power to the traveling motor, the electric-vehicle-body structure comprising:
a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space including a seat on which a passenger sits;
a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of the occupant space and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; and
a connecting structure extending upward from the floor panel, having an upper portion fixed to the center frame, and connecting the center frame to the floor panel, wherein
a rear end of the center frame is disposed rearward in the vehicle front-rear direction more than a position where the seat is attached to the floor panel,
the center frame includes a bend portion that bends downward,
the center frame includes a front-side member extending in the front-rear direction and a rear-side frame member disposed on a vehicle rear side of the front-side frame member and extending toward a rear side of the electric-vehicle body structure,
the front-side frame member is tilted at a first tilt angle relative to a horizontal plane, and
the rear-side frame member is tilted at a second tilt angle smaller than the first tilt angle relative to the horizontal plane.