Structure for securing batteries used in an electric vehicle
First Claim
1. A structure for securing each battery of a plurality of batteries for driving an electric vehicle in the electric vehicle in a condition in which said plurality of batteries have been compactly disposed and wherein each said battery has a bottom and sides, comprising:
- a battery box having a box body,an inner spacer member in said box body for accommodating said plurality of batteries in said box body of said battery box, wherein said inner spacer member has a lower inner spacer member for placing said bottom of each said battery of said plurality of batteries thereon, said lower inner spacer member having means for defining spaces between said box body and said lower inner spacer member, andsaid inner spacer member further including partition members formed as an integral body, said partition members defining a plurality of spaced compartments for fixedly disposing each said battery of said plurality of batteries in a compartment of said plurality of spaced compartments in a condition in which each said battery is spaced and separated on all said sides of that said battery from all other said batteries of said plurality of batteries, each said compartment of said plurality of spaced compartments receiving only one said battery of said plurality of batteries in said compartment.
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Abstract
A structure for securing a plurality of batteries used for an electric vehicle. The battery securing structure includes an inner spacer member having a lower inner spacer member and an upper inner spacer member, each of which is made of a synthetic resin such as polypropylene (PP). The lower inner spacer member has partition portions divided into separate compartments to fixedly dispose each battery in a compartment whereby all the batteries are in a state in which they have been separated from each other on all sides. The upper inner spacer member includes pressing portions for pressing and holding desired portions of the batteries, concave portions for defining spaces used for conductive wires and cooling, and partition portions divided into compartments to unmovably dispose the batteries in a state in which they have been spaced away from each other. Thus, the plurality of batteries can be reliably and firmly secured and fixed within a battery box.
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29 Claims
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1. A structure for securing each battery of a plurality of batteries for driving an electric vehicle in the electric vehicle in a condition in which said plurality of batteries have been compactly disposed and wherein each said battery has a bottom and sides, comprising:
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a battery box having a box body, an inner spacer member in said box body for accommodating said plurality of batteries in said box body of said battery box, wherein said inner spacer member has a lower inner spacer member for placing said bottom of each said battery of said plurality of batteries thereon, said lower inner spacer member having means for defining spaces between said box body and said lower inner spacer member, and said inner spacer member further including partition members formed as an integral body, said partition members defining a plurality of spaced compartments for fixedly disposing each said battery of said plurality of batteries in a compartment of said plurality of spaced compartments in a condition in which each said battery is spaced and separated on all said sides of that said battery from all other said batteries of said plurality of batteries, each said compartment of said plurality of spaced compartments receiving only one said battery of said plurality of batteries in said compartment. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A structure for securing each battery of a plurality of batteries for driving an electric vehicle in the electric vehicle in a condition in which said plurality of batteries have been compactly disposed and wherein each said battery has a bottom, sides and upper surface, comprising;
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a battery box having a box body, an inner spacer member in said box body for accommodating said plurality of batteries in said box body of said battery box, wherein said inner spacer member has an upper inner spacer member for pressing and holding said upper surface of each said battery of said plurality of batteries, said upper inner spacer member having concave portions for defining predetermined spaces between said upper surface of each said battery of said plurality of batteries and said upper inner spacer member, and said inner spacer member further including partition members formed as an integral body, said partition members defining a plurality of spaced compartments for fixedly disposing each said battery of said plurality of batteries in a compartment of said plurality of spaced compartments in a condition in which each said battery is spaced and separated on all said sides of that said battery from all other said batteries of said plurality of batteries, each said compartment of said plurality of spaced compartments receiving only one said battery of said plurality of batteries in said compartment.
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22. A structure for securing each battery of a plurality of batteries for driving an electric vehicle in the electric vehicle in a condition in which said plurality of batteries have been compactly disposed and wherein each said battery has sides, comprising;
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a battery box having a box body, an inner spacer member in said box body for accommodating said plurality of batteries in said box body of said battery box, said inner spacer member including partition members formed as an integral body, said partition members defining a plurality of spaced compartments for fixedly disposing each said battery of said plurality of batteries in a compartment of said plurality of spaced compartments in a condition in which each said battery is spaced and separated on all said sides of that said battery from all other said batteries of said plurality of batteries, each said compartment of said plurality of spaced compartments receiving only one said battery of said plurality of batteries in said compartment, and an intake air passage member for introducing cooling air into said box body, said intake air passage member comprising a chamber in which the cooling air is received, at least one first passage for introducing external cooling air into a lower side of said chamber from an upper portion of said chamber, and a second passage provided on an upper side in said chamber and used to introduce the cooling air brought into said chamber into said body. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A structure for securing each battery of a plurality of batteries for driving an electric vehicle in the electric vehicle in a condition in which said plurality of batteries have been compactly disposed and wherein each said battery has a bottom, side walls and top, comprising;
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a battery box having a box body, an inner spacer member in said box body for accommodating said plurality of batteries in said box body of said battery box, said inner spacer .member further including partition members formed as an integral body, said partition members defining a plurality of spaced compartments for fixedly disposing each said battery of said plurality of batteries in a compartment of said plurality of spaced compartments in a condition in which each said battery is spaced and separated on all said sides of that said battery from all other said batteries of said plurality of batteries, each said compartment of said plurality of spaced compartments receiving only one said battery of said plurality of batteries in said compartment, and wherein said partition members of said inner spacer member include wall means extending between at least portions of adjacent said side walls of all of said plurality of batteries, said wall means including upwardly extending wall means extending vertically upward from said bottom of each said battery of said plurality of batteries and downwardly extending wall means extending vertically downward from said top of each said battery of said plurality of batteries thereby providing a cooling air space between said plurality of batteries in a vertical space between said upwardly extending wall means and said downwardly extending wall means.
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29. A structure for securing each battery of a plurality of batteries for driving an electric vehicle in the electric vehicle in a condition in which said plurality of batteries have been compactly disposed and wherein each said battery has a bottom, side walls and upper surface, comprising;
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a battery box having a box body, an inner spacer member in said box body for accommodating said plurality of batteries in said box body of said battery box, said inner spacer member further including partition members formed as an integral body, said partition members defining a plurality of spaced compartments for fixedly disposing each said battery of said plurality of batteries in a compartment of said plurality of spaced compartments in a condition in which each said battery is spaced and separated on all said sides of that said battery from all other said batteries of said plurality of batteries, each said compartment of said plurality of spaced compartments receiving only one said battery of said plurality of batteries in said compartment, and wherein said partition members of said inner spacer member include wall means extending between at least portions of adjacent said side walls of all of said plurality of batteries, said wall means comprising a double wall integrally connected at an extending edge with a space provided between said double wall.
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Specification