Vehicle lower section structure

• US 10,377,432 B2
• Filed: 10/05/2017
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Ayukawa, Tatsuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Freedman, Laura
• Application Number:
  US15/725,666
• Publication Number:
  US 20180148109A1
• Time in Patent Office: 677 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 21/11 with resilient means for suspension , e.g. of wheels or engine; sub-frames for mounting engine or suspensions
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 35/02 Streamlining the undersurfaces B62D35/005, B62D35/007, B62D35/008 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/82 Elements for improving aerodynamics
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/88 Optimized components or subsystems, e.g. lighting, actively controlled glasses

Abstract

There is provided a vehicle lower section structure including: a suspension member that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction and that includes a pair of side rails that are be separated from each other in a vehicle width direction; a vehicle onboard device that is formed with a substantially box shape, that is disposed between one of the side rails and the other of the side rails, and that includes a bottom face disposed substantially in the same plane as a bottom face of the suspension member; and a flow smoothing section that is provided at at least one of the bottom face of the vehicle onboard device or the bottom face of the suspension member, and that is provided projecting out toward a vehicle lower side and extending along the vehicle front-rear direction.

Claims

1. A vehicle lower section structure comprising:

a suspension member that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction and that includes a pair of side rails that are separated from each other in a vehicle width direction and that have closed doss-section profiles;

a vehicle onboard device that is formed with a substantially box shape, that is disposed between one of the side rails and the other of the side rails, and that includes a bottom face disposed substantially in the same plane as a bottom face of the suspension member; and

a flow smoothing section that is provided at at least one of the bottom face of the vehicle onboard device or the bottom face of the suspension member, and that is provided projecting out toward a vehicle lower side and extending along the vehicle front-rear direction.

2. The vehicle lower section structure of claim 1, wherein the vehicle onboard device is fixed to the suspension member by being fastened to the bottom face of the suspension member from the vehicle lower side.

3. The vehicle lower section structure of claim 1, wherein a separation face substantially orthogonal to the vehicle front-rear direction is formed at a vehicle rear end of the flow smoothing section.

4. The vehicle lower section structure of claim 1, wherein:

the vehicle onboard device is a contactless charging module including a contactless charger provided within the contactless charging module; and

the contactless charger is disposed at a position separated from the suspension member.

5. The vehicle lower section structure of claim 4, wherein the flow smoothing section includes a pair of flow smoothing sections provided on the bottom face of the contactless charger at vehicle width direction outer sides of positions corresponding to the contactless charging module.

6. The vehicle lower section structure of claim 4, wherein the flow smoothing section is integrally formed to a bottom wall of the contactless charging module.

7. The vehicle lower section structure of claim 1, wherein the flow smoothing section is configured by a resin.

8. The vehicle lower section structure of claim 1, wherein the flow smoothing section is configured by a metal.