US 12,142,780 B2
Equipment component fixation structure
Junta Katayama, Miyoshi (JP); Shungo Iizuka, Toyota (JP); Isao Takahashi, Toyota (JP); and Hikaru Hishida, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Nov. 4, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/518,851.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-208341 (JP), filed on Dec. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0190427 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 50/249 (2021.01); H02G 3/08 (2006.01)
CPC H01M 50/249 (2021.01) [H01M 2220/20 (2013.01); H02G 3/08 (2013.01)] 1 Claim
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An equipment component fixation structure, comprising:
a cell stack having a side portion;
an equipment case which is secured to the side portion of the cell stack and configured to hold an equipment component;
a cover that covers the cell stack and the equipment case;
the equipment component held in the equipment case, wherein the equipment component includes a service plug and a junction box;
an in-vehicle bracket for mounting the cell stack onto a vehicle, the in-vehicle bracket being secured to the cell stack; and
a support bracket for supporting the equipment case,
wherein
the in-vehicle bracket has a shape as projecting from the cell stack to below the equipment case,
the equipment case includes:
an enclosing portion enclosing the junction box, and
a mounting piece connected to a bottom end of the enclosing portion,
the enclosing portion has a holding portion holding the service plug,
the holding portion includes a recess formed at a top end portion of the enclosing portion,
the mounting piece is formed vertically below the holding portion,
the in-vehicle bracket includes:
a connection connected to a bottom portion of the cell stack, and
a fixation portion extending from the connection to below the mounting piece, and
the support bracket couples the fixation portion of the in-vehicle bracket to the mounting piece of the equipment case, wherein the equipment case further includes a mounting portion that mounts the enclosing portion of the equipment case to the side portion of the cell stack, wherein:
the enclosing portion includes a first wall, a second wall, and a third wall that couples the first wall and the second wall,
the mounting portion includes a plurality of mounting portions respectively provided at each of the first wall and the second wall,
the holding portion is provided at the second wall of the enclosing portion, the support bracket is formed in a plate shape and bolted to the mounting piece,
each of the first wall and the second wall is formed in a plate shape,
the first wall and the second wall are opposing each other,
the recess of the holding portion is formed at the top end portion of the second wall,
a part of the service plug protrudes from the second wall in a direction away from the first wall, and
the service plug is exposed from the cover in a direction away from the first wall.