Vehicle body floor structure

• US 8,118,125 B2
• Filed: 02/15/2010
• Issued: 02/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Hiroyoshi, Okuzaki, Sayaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Shriver, II, J. Allen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gurari, Erez
• Application Number:
  US12/705,717
• Publication Number:
  US 20100213741A1
• Time in Patent Office: 736 Days
• Field of Search: 180/68.5
• 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 15/063 Arrangement of tanks
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/4235 transversal
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 25/025 Side sills thereof
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 25/20 Floors or bottom sub-units sub-frames for mounting engine or suspensions B62D21/11; drip trays F16N31/006
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 25/2036 the subunits being side panels, sills or pillars B62D21/157 takes precedence

Abstract

Vehicle body floor structure has a floor tunnel provided on a laterally central portion of a vehicle body floor panel and extending in a front-rear direction of a vehicle body, a desired stored component being stored in the floor tunnel. The stored component has a passageway formed therein to extend in a width direction of the vehicle body. The floor structure also has a cross member passed through the passageway of the stored component, the stored component is supported on the cross member via a resilient member, and the cross member is fixedly fastened at its opposite ends to the inner surfaces of opposed side walls of the floor tunnel.

Claims

1. A vehicle body floor structure comprising:

a floor tunnel provided on a laterally central portion of a vehicle body floor panel and extending in a front-rear direction of a vehicle body, a stored component being stored in the floor tunnel, the stored component having a passageway formed therein to extend in a width direction of the vehicle body; and

a cross member passed through the passageway of the stored component and fixed at opposite ends thereof to inner surfaces of opposed side walls of the floor tunnel, the stored component being supported on the cross member via a resilient member, wherein the cross member is fixed at the opposite ends to horizontal bracket bottom surfaces each projecting in a substantially right-angled triangular shape from the inner surface of a corresponding one of the opposed side walls of the floor tunnel.

2. The vehicle body floor structure of claim 1, wherein the stored component is a functional component having a fuel storage function, power generating function or electric power storage function, or a high-voltage electric system.

3. The vehicle body floor structure of claim 2, wherein the stored component is a fuel cell stack.

4. The vehicle body floor structure of claim 1, wherein the cross member supports the stored component via a stay member that is supported, via the resilient member, in a substantially floating manner within the floor tunnel.

5. The vehicle body floor structure of claim 4, wherein the stay member is provided in perpendicularly intersecting relation to the cross member.

6. The vehicle body floor structure of claim 4, wherein the stay member is provided in parallel relation to the cross member.