US 12,403,853 B2
Vehicle
Yuuki Mukaigawa, Seto (JP); Naoki Tani, Nagoya (JP); Ryuma Osaka, Toyota (JP); Shungo Iizuka, Toyota (JP); Shunji Shibata, Anjo (JP); Kyohei Miyaoka, Ikeda (JP); Masanori Kodera, Toyota (JP); and Takashi Iwasaki, Hamamatsu (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Mar. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/126,708.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-053204 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0311795 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. B60R 16/04 (2006.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B62D 21/15 (2006.01); B62D 25/20 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 16/04 (2013.01) [B60K 1/04 (2013.01); B62D 21/155 (2013.01); B62D 25/20 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle comprising:
a vehicle body comprising a floor panel;
a battery pack located below the floor panel; and
an energy absorption member located outwardly from the battery pack in a vehicle width direction and fixing the battery pack to the vehicle body,
wherein:
a support that protrudes downwardly is disposed on a lower wall of the battery pack,
the energy absorption member comprises a protrusion that protrudes inwardly in the vehicle width direction toward the support,
a tip end of the protrusion comprises a contact surface being in contact with a side surface of the support in the vehicle width direction, and
a dimension of the contact surface of the protrusion in a vehicle height direction is equal to or greater than a dimension of the side surface of the support in the vehicle height direction.