US 12,347,879 B2
Vehicle battery tray with tubular peripheral wall
Joseph Robert Matecki, Allendale, MI (US); Mark Charles Stephens, Grand Rapids, MI (US); Matthew Kuipers, Holland, MI (US); and Zehua Qin, Norton Shores, MI (US)
Assigned to Shape Corp., Grand Haven, MI (US)
Filed by Shape Corp., Grand Haven, MI (US)
Filed on Nov. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/517,953.
Application 17/517,953 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/366,130, filed on Jul. 2, 2021, abandoned.
Application 17/366,130 is a continuation of application No. 16/130,580, filed on Sep. 13, 2018, granted, now 11,088,412, issued on Aug. 10, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/558,100, filed on Sep. 13, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0059892 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 50/20 (2021.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B60L 50/60 (2019.01)
CPC H01M 50/20 (2021.01) [B60K 1/04 (2013.01); B60L 50/66 (2019.02); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0472 (2013.01); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery tray for a vehicle, the battery tray comprising:
a peripheral tubular member having an inner wall section, an outer wall section, an upper wall section, and a lower wall section that surround an elongated hollow interior of the peripheral tubular member;
wherein the inner wall section of the peripheral tubular member borders a battery containment area configured to contain vehicle batteries;
wherein the outer wall section of the peripheral tubular members faces laterally outboard relative to the vehicle;
a crush section disposed along the outer wall section of the peripheral tubular member and having an outboard wall portion, an upper leg portion integrally extending inboard from an upper end of the outboard wall portion, and a lower leg portion integrally extending inboard from a lower end of the outboard wall portion;
wherein the upper and lower leg portions of the crush section each terminate inboard at an end flange of the crush section;
wherein at least one of the end flanges is attached at the outer wall section of the peripheral tubular member, and
wherein the upper leg portion of the crush section is located below the upper wall section of the peripheral tubular member and the lower leg portion of the crush section is located above the lower wall section of the peripheral tubular member.