US 12,126,038 B2
Electrified vehicle
Shigenori Hashida, Nisshin (JP); Takayuki Nakamura, Toyota (JP); Osamu Shimasaki, Nisshin (JP); Hyuga Atsumi, Nagoya (JP); Satoshi Ikeda, Tokyo (JP); and Daisuke Suewaka, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-Ken (JP); and SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP); and SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/712,196.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-064928 (JP), filed on Apr. 6, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0320666 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 50/242 (2021.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B62D 21/11 (2006.01)
CPC H01M 50/242 (2021.01) [B60K 1/04 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01); B62D 21/11 (2013.01); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrified vehicle, comprising:
a floor panel;
a battery case that is disposed on a lower side of the floor panel, and that accommodates a battery;
a frame that is disposed in a vehicle forward side or a vehicle rearward side of the battery case and that supports a suspension; and
a brace that intersects an imaginary middle line orthogonal to a vehicle-width direction of the electrified vehicle, and that is fixed to the frame and the battery case, wherein:
the brace is fixed to the frame by a first fixing portion situated on a right side of the electrified vehicle with respect to the middle line;
the brace is fixed to the frame by a second fixing portion situated on a left side of the electrified vehicle with respect to the middle line;
the brace is fixed to the battery case by a third fixing portion situated on the right side of the electrified vehicle with respect to the middle line;
the brace is fixed to the battery case by a fourth fixing portion situated on the left side of the electrified vehicle with respect to the middle line;
the brace includes a first plate member and a second plate member;
the first plate member includes a first bead that is situated on the right side of the electrified vehicle with respect to the middle line and that extends in a front-rear direction, and a second bead that is located on the left side of the electrified vehicle with respect to the middle line and that extends in the front-rear direction; and
the second plate member is fixed to the first plate member, being stacked with the first plate member, and covers a first recessed portion configured of the first bead on a surface of the first plate member and a second recessed portion configured of the second bead on the surface of the first plate member.