BATTERY CONTAINER

• US 20130192914A1
• Filed: 01/30/2013
• Published: 08/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: NAKAMORI, Yoji
• Granted Patent: US 8,936,125 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 180/68.5
• 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 2001/0438 Arrangement under the floor
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/64 Constructional details of batteries specially adapted for electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2306/01 Reducing damages in case of crash, e.g. by improving battery protection
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/209 adapted for prismatic or rectangular cells H01M50/216 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/224 Metals
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/249 specially adapted for aircraft or vehicles, e.g. cars or trains constructional details of batteries specially adapted for electric vehicles B60L50/64
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/278 Organic material
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries

Abstract

A battery container which is to house a battery for a vehicle and which is to be attached between at least two frames disposed in the vehicle, includes: a bottom plate; a wall member which is raised from a circumference of the bottom plate and which includes a side wall member disposed along the frames; an outer frame which is attached to an outer side of the side wall member; and an inner frame which is attached to an inner side of the side wall member. The outer frame and the inner frame are extended in a substantially same direction along the side wall member, and the side wall member is clampingly held between the outer frame and the inner frame.

Claims

1. A battery container which is to house a battery for a vehicle and which is to be attached between at least two frames disposed in the vehicle, the battery container comprising:

a bottom plate;

a wall member which is raised from a circumference of the bottom plate and which includes a side wall member disposed along the frames;

an outer frame which is attached to an outer side of the side wall member; and

an inner frame which is attached to an inner side of the side wall member, wherein

the outer frame and the inner frame are extended in a substantially same direction along the side wall member, and

the side wall member is clampingly held between the outer frame and the inner frame.

2. The battery container according to claim 1, wherein a closed cross-section structure is formed by the outer frame and the inner frame.

3. The battery container according to claim 2, wherein

the outer frame includes a first lower plate member which is joined to the bottom plate, and a first attaching member which is joined to the side wall member, and

the inner frame includes a second lower plate member which is joined to the bottom plate, and a second attaching member which is joined to the side wall member.

4. The battery container according to claim 3, wherein

the first attaching member of the outer frame and the second attaching member of the inner frame are integrally joined together across the side wall member, and

the first lower plate member of the outer frame and the second lower plate member of the inner frame are integrally joined together across the side wall member.

5. The battery container according to claim 1, wherein

a closed cross-section structure is formed by the outer frame and the side wall member, and

a closed cross-section structure is formed by the inner frame and the side wall member.

6. The battery container according to claim 5, wherein

the outer frame includes a first lower plate member which is joined to the bottom plate at a first position, and a first attaching member which is joined to the side wall member at a second position, and

the inner frame includes a second lower plate member which is joined to the bottom plate at a third position, and a second attaching member which is joined to the side wall member at a fourth position.

7. The battery container according to claim 6, wherein

at least one of a pair of the first position and the third position and a pair of the second position and the fourth position is shifted from each other.

8. The battery container according to claim 1, wherein the inner frame includes a seat surface to which the battery is to be fixed by a fastening member.

9. The battery container according to claim 1, wherein a thickness of the outer frame is larger than a thickness of the wall member.

10. The battery container according to claim 1, wherein a bracket which is to be attached to the at least two frames is disposed outside the outer frame.