Vehicle

• US 10,040,413 B2
• Filed: 01/26/2017
• Issued: 08/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Inagaki, Yuya, Wada, Toshinao
• Primary Examiner(s): EBNER, KATY MEYER
• Application Number:
  US15/416,006
• Publication Number:
  US 20170210314A1
• Time in Patent Office: 558 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 1/04 of the electric storage means for propulsion exchanging batteries for electric propulsion of vehicles B60L53/80; for auxiliary purposes only B60R16/04; supplying batteries to, or removing batteries from, vehicles B60S5/06
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2001/0427 Arrangement between the seats
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/00 Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/04 Arrangement of batteries
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0007 Mid-console
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/005 Connection with the vehicle part
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/04 in driver or passenger space , e.g. using racks B60R7/005, B60R7/08 take precedence

Abstract

A vehicle includes: a body forming a floor portion in a vehicle compartment; a console box provided on the body and placed in the vehicle compartment; a battery provided below the console box; a battery case configured to accommodate the battery; and a fastening member and a fastening member configured to fasten the console box to the body side and the battery case side, respectively. With such a configuration, there is provided a vehicle capable of supporting a console box in a vehicle compartment without causing an increase in weight and a higher cost.

Claims

1. A vehicle comprising:

a body forming a floor portion in a vehicle compartment;

a console box provided on the body and placed in the vehicle compartment, the console box having an accommodating portion forming an accommodating space for articles;

a battery provided below the console box;

a battery case configured to accommodate the battery; and

a first fastening member and a second fastening member configured to fasten the console box to the body and the battery case, respectively, outside the accommodating space,

wherein

the console box has a first extending portion and a second extending portion extending from the accommodating portion toward the outside of the accommodating space,

the first fastening member fastens the first extending portion to the body, and

the second fastening member fastens the second extending portion to the battery case.

2. The vehicle according to claim 1, wherein

a fastened section of the battery case to which the console box is fastened has a rigidity higher than that of the other section of the battery case.

3. The vehicle according to claim 2, wherein

the battery case has a main body portion configured to cover the battery, and a plate portion fixed to the main body portion, and

the fastened section of the battery case to which the console box is fastened is the plate portion.

4. The vehicle according to claim 3, wherein

a gap is provided between the main body portion and the console box.

5. The vehicle according to claim 1, wherein

the accommodating portion has a substantially rectangular shape in a planar view, in which a long side direction of the accommodating portion corresponds to a vehicle front-rear direction and a short side direction of the accommodating portion corresponds to a vehicle width direction, and

the first extending portion and the second extending portion are provided at opposing ends of the accommodating portion in the long side direction.

6. The vehicle according to claim 5, wherein

the console box is provided between a driver'"'"'s seat and a passenger'"'"'s seat, and

the first extending portion and the second extending portion are provided on the vehicle front side and on the vehicle rear side, respectively.