Structure for Installing Electrical Part

• US 20090120702A1
• Filed: 10/11/2006
• Published: 05/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoda, Takehito
• Granted Patent: US 8,302,716 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 180/68.100
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/04 Arrangement of batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/613 Cooling or keeping cold
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/625 Vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/6563 with forced flow, e.g. by blowers
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2250/20 Fuel cells in motive systems, e.g. vehicle, ship, plane
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/50 Fuel cells
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/40 Application of hydrogen technology to transportation, e.g. using fuel cells

Abstract

A structure for installing a fan as an electrical part includes a battery case having a top surface and provided to a vehicle, and a battery cooling fan installed at a prescribed position on the top surface. The battery case and the battery cooling fan have a guide, grooves and guides which guide the battery cooling fan toward the prescribed position while the battery cooling fan is slid on the top surface. By such a configuration, the structure for installing the electrical part with good workability at the time of installation is provided.

Claims

1. A structure for installing an electrical part comprising:

an installation portion having a surface and provided to a vehicle; and

an electrical part installed at a prescribed position on said surface,

at least one of said installation portion and said electrical part having a guide member which guides said electrical part toward said prescribed position while said electrical part is slid on said surface.

2. The structure for installing an electrical part according to claim 1, wherein

said guide member includes a groove formed in one of said installation portion and said electrical, and a protrusion formed in the other of said installation portion and said electrical part to fit into said groove.

3. The structure for installing an electrical part according to claim 2, wherein

said installation portion is a housing of an electric storage device mounted on the vehicle, and

said housing is reinforced with one of said groove and said protrusion formed in said installation portion.

4. The structure for installing an electrical part according to claim 1, wherein

said guide member includes a first guide portion guiding said electrical part toward said prescribed position along the horizontal direction, and a second guide portion Guiding said electrical part toward said prescribed position along the vertical direction.

5. The structure for installing an electrical part according to claim 1, wherein

said guide member has no contact between said installation portion and said electrical part when said electrical part is installed at said prescribed position.

6. The structure for installing an electrical part according to claim 1, wherein

said installation portion has a receiving portion,

said electrical part has an inserting portion, and

said receiving portion and said inserting portion are fit on each other by sliding said electrical part on said surface.

7. The structure for installing an electrical part according to claim 1, wherein

said electrical part is a fan.

8. The structure for installing an electrical part according to claim 1, wherein

said installation portion is a housing of an electric storage device mounted in a luggage room,

said electrical part is a fan by which cooling air is fed into said electric storage device, and

said fan is fixed to said housing by being carried in from an opening of said luggage room which is open to the backward and forward direction of the vehicle, and being slid in the backward and forward direction of the vehicle.