Vehicle front portion structure

• US 10,279,693 B2
• Filed: 04/17/2018
• Issued: 05/07/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Shimizu, Kazuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Restifo, Jeffrey J
• Application Number:
  US15/954,896
• Publication Number:
  US 20180361857A1
• Time in Patent Office: 385 Days
• Field of Search: 180312, 180232, 29618703, 296204
• 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 6/00 Arrangement or mounting of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion, e.g. hybrid propulsion systems comprising electric motors and internal combustion engines ; Control systems therefor, i.e. systems controlling two or more prime movers, or controlling one of these prime movers and any of the transmission, drive or drive units arrangement or mounting in vehicles of electrical gearing, in which an electrical machine serves only as reduction gearing and not as the prime mover and in which no electrical storing means are used B60K17/12; control and regulation of purely electrical prime movers B60L; prime-movers comprising electrical and internal combustion motors in a common engine block or housing per se F02B65/00; electric motors or motor-generators used for starting the combustion engine F02N11/04; electric motors for synchronising gearing F16H3/12 Informative references: mechanical gearings with secondary electric drive F16H3/72; arrangements for handling mechanical energy structurally associated with the dynamo-electric machine H02K7/00; machines comprising structurally interrelated motor and generator parts H02K51/00; dynamo-electric machines not otherwise provided for in H02K see H02K99/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/0007 Measures or means for preventing or attenuating collisions
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/64 Constructional details of batteries specially adapted for electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/66 Arrangements of batteries
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/122 Circuits or methods for driving the primary coil, e.g. supplying electric power to the coil
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 19/12 vertically spaced
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 21/02 comprising longitudinally or transversely arranged frame members
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 21/152 Front or rear frames
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract

A vehicle front portion structure includes: a non-contact charger disposed at a lower side of a vehicle front portion, configured to receive electric power transmitted from a non-contact power transmitting system, and carrying out charging of a battery that is installed in a vehicle; and a cross member disposed at the vehicle front portion further toward a vehicle front side than the non-contact charger, and extending in a vehicle transverse direction, a bottom surface of the cross member being disposed further toward a vehicle lower side than a bottom surface of the non-contact charger.

Claims

1. A vehicle front portion structure comprising:

a non-contact charger disposed at a lower side of a vehicle front portion, the non-contact charger being configured to receive electric power transmitted from a non-contact power transmitting system and charge a battery that is installed in a vehicle;

a front cross member disposed at the vehicle front portion further toward a vehicle front side than the non-contact charger, the front cross member extending in a vehicle transverse direction, a bottom surface of the cross member being disposed further toward a vehicle lower side than a bottom surface of the non-contact charger; and

a suspension member including a pair of side rails provided at the vehicle front portion, the pair of side rails being separated from each other in the vehicle transverse direction, each side rail of the pair of side rails extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction and including an arm extending outward in the vehicle transverse direction, the front cross member spanning between the pair of side rails.

2. The vehicle front portion structure of claim 1, wherein the non-contact charger is mounted to the front cross member.

3. The vehicle front portion structure of claim 1, further comprising:

a rear cross member spanning between the pair of side rails, the rear cross member structuring a portion of the suspension member and being disposed further toward a vehicle rear side than the front cross member, the non-contact charger being mounted to the rear cross member.

4. The vehicle front portion structure of claim 3, further comprising a bottom surface of the rear cross member disposed further toward the vehicle lower side than the bottom surface of the non-contact charger,

wherein the non-contact charger is disposed between the front cross member and the rear cross member.

5. The vehicle front portion structure of claim 3, further comprising:

an intermediate cross member spanning between the pair of side rails, the intermediate cross member structuring a portion of the suspension member and being disposed between the front cross member and the rear cross member,

wherein the non-contact charger is mounted to any two cross members of the front cross member, the intermediate cross member, or the rear cross member.