Vehicle

• US 10,293,697 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2017
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2016
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Goitsuka, Shinya
• Primary Examiner(s): Gurari, Erez
• Application Number:
  US15/684,457
• Publication Number:
  US 20180065490A1
• Time in Patent Office: 636 Days
• 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: B60K 2001/0438 Arrangement under the floor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2015/0634 the fuel tank is arranged below the vehicle floor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2015/0638 the fuel tank is arranged in the rear of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/46 Series type
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/30 AC to DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/66 Arrangements of batteries
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/122 Circuits or methods for driving the primary coil, e.g. supplying electric power to the coil
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/16 Connectors, e.g. plugs or sockets, specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/22 Constructional details or arrangements of charging converters specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2306/01 Reducing damages in case of crash, e.g. by improving battery protection
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 903/903 having energy storing means, e.g. battery, capacitor

Abstract

An electrically powered vehicle includes: a floor panel forming a lower surface of the electrically powered vehicle; a battery disposed on a lower surface of the floor panel; and a power reception device disposed below the floor panel and configured to contactlessly receive electric power from a power transmission device provided externally. The power reception device has a lower surface that is located below a lower surface of the battery. The electrically powered vehicle is one of various kinds of vehicles such as a hybrid vehicle and an electric vehicle, in which protection of the battery is achieved.

Claims

1. A vehicle comprising:

a floor panel forming a lower surface of the vehicle;

a battery disposed on a lower surface of the floor panel; and

a power reception device disposed below the floor panel and configured to contactlessly receive electric power from a power transmission device provided externally,

the power reception device having a lower surface that is located below a lower surface of the battery,

wherein the power reception device is disposed on the lower surface of the battery.

2. The vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising:

an engine; and

a fuel tank for storing fuel to be supplied to the engine, wherein

the fuel tank has a lower surface that is located above the lower surface of the power reception device.

3. The vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising:

an engine; and

a fuel tank for storing fuel to be supplied to the engine, wherein

the fuel tank has a lower surface that is located above the lower surface of the power reception device and the lower surface of the battery.

4. The vehicle according to claim 2, wherein a travelling distance that the vehicle can travel with fuel fully filling the fuel tank is longer than a travelling distance that the vehicle can travel with electric power from the battery fully charged.

5. The vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising a charging unit to which a charging plug provided externally is connected, the charging unit being configured to supply, to the battery, electric power supplied through the charging plug, wherein

the charging unit is disposed above the floor panel.