Structure for installing electrical part

• US 8,302,716 B2
• Filed: 10/11/2006
• Issued: 11/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoda, Takehito
• Primary Examiner(s): VANAMAN, FRANK BENNETT
• Application Number:
  US11/991,470
• Publication Number:
  US 20090120702A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,218 Days
• Field of Search: 180/68.1, 180/68.2, 180/68.5
• US Class Current: 180/68.5
• 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, the installation portion being provided on a vehicle;

an electrical part attached at a prescribed position on the surface of the installation portion during use; and

a guide member provided on the electrical part which guides the electrical part toward the prescribed position while the electrical part is slid on the surface of the installation portion;

wherein the guide member has no contact with the installation portion when the electrical part is attached at the prescribed position; and

the guide member is arranged farther away from the installation portion when the electrical part is attached at the prescribed position than while the electrical part is slid on the surface of the installation portion;

wherein the guide member includes a protrusion formed on the electrical part to fit into a groove formed on the installation portion

wherein the guide member includes a protrusion formed on the electrical part to fit into a groove formed on the installation portion, wherein the protrusion is spaced apart from a bottom surface of the groove.

2. The structure for installing an electrical part according to claim 1, wherein said installation portion is a housing of an electric storage device mounted on the vehicle.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. The structure for installing an electrical part according to claim 1, wherein said electrical part is a fan.

6. The structure for installing an electrical part according to claim 1, wherein the installation portion is a housing of an electric storage device mounted in a luggage room,

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

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

7. A structure for installing an electrical part, comprising:

an installation portion provided on a vehicle;

an electrical part mounted at a prescribed position above a surface on the installation portion; and

a first guide member and a second guide member provided on the electrical part, said first guide member for guiding the electrical part toward the prescribed position along a horizontal direction, and said second guide member for guiding the electrical part toward the prescribed position along a vertical direction;

wherein the first guide member and the second guide member have no contact with the surface of the installation portion when the electrical part is mounted at the prescribed position,

wherein said second guide member is a stay comprising two arms extending on either side of a central hole,

wherein the surface is a top surface and the installation portion further comprises a raised mount portion extending from the top surface, said raised mount portion comprising a rubber mount having a groove adapted to receive the two arms therein.

8. The structure for installing an electrical part according to claim 7, wherein said first guide member is a protrusion on a lower surface of the electrical part and said installation portion comprises a groove in a top surface adapted to receive the protrusion therein.

9. The structure for installing an electrical part according to claim 7, further comprising an oblique surface extending from the top surface of the installation part to the raised mount portion.