US 12,128,753 B2
Lower structure for hybrid automobile
Yoshinori Ikeda, Hiroshima (JP); Tsutomu Shibata, Hiroshima (JP); Yosuke Sawada, Hiroshima (JP); and Tetsuya Shimomura, Hiroshima (JP)
Assigned to MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed by Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed on Jul. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/867,715.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-121917 (JP), filed on Jul. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0023059 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B60R 16/02 (2006.01); B62D 21/15 (2006.01); F01N 13/18 (2010.01); F24H 4/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 1/04 (2013.01) [B60R 16/0207 (2013.01); B62D 21/152 (2013.01); F01N 13/1805 (2013.01); F24H 4/00 (2013.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A lower structure for a hybrid automobile in which a high-voltage battery is disposed in a lower surface of a floor panel, the lower structure comprising:
an engine exhaust system component which is disposed in front of the high-voltage battery in the lower surface of the floor panel and on one vehicle-width-direction side of a center in a vehicle width direction; and
a high-voltage device which is disposed in front of the high-voltage battery in the lower surface of the floor panel and on another vehicle-width-direction side of the center in the vehicle width direction, the lower structure being characterized in that
in-vehicle equipment is disposed between the high-voltage battery and the high-voltage device, and
the in-vehicle equipment is in an inclined state where an upper surface of the in-vehicle equipment is inclined in a front-rear direction such that the in-vehicle equipment has a shorter dimension in the front-rear direction than a dimension in a horizontal state where the upper surface becomes horizontal.