IP Library Granted Patent US 12679192
Granted Patent B2
US 12679192 · App. 18/578,492 · Granted Jul 14, 2026

Connecting device for connecting a battery housing to a rear car bodyshell of a motor car body

Inventors: Arnold Migendt (Sindelfingen, DE); Andreas Lueckemann (Stuttgart, DE); Xiaodong Mao (Stuttgart, DE)
Assignee: Mercedes-Benz Group AG
B60K1/04B60K2001/0416
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Patent No.
US 12679192
App. No.
18/578,492
Granted
Jul 14, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A connecting device that connects a battery housing to a rear car bodyshell of a body of an electric passenger motor car. The connecting device includes a crossbeam and a plurality of fixing sleeves that are disposed in the crossbeam. Each of the plurality of fixing sleeves are passed through by a respective screw element to connect the battery housing to the rear car bodyshell by the crossbeam. The plurality of fixing sleeves each have a crash structure which is deformable when absorbing energy in an event that an accident of the electric passenger motor car causes movement of the rear car bodyshell relative to the battery housing.

Claims (22)

1 . A connecting device ( 28 ) that connects a battery housing ( 12 ) to a rear car bodyshell ( 10 ) of a body of an electric passenger motor car, comprising:

a crossbeam ( 30 ); and

a plurality of fixing sleeves ( 40 ) that are disposed in the crossbeam ( 30 ), wherein each of the plurality of fixing sleeves ( 40 ) are passed through by a respective screw element ( 64 ) to connect the battery housing ( 12 ) to the rear car bodyshell ( 10 ) by the crossbeam ( 30 );

wherein the plurality of fixing sleeves ( 40 ) each have a crash structure which is deformable when absorbing energy in an event that an accident of the electric passenger motor car causes movement of the rear car bodyshell ( 10 ) relative to the battery housing ( 12 );

wherein when the accident is a frontal collision, the plurality of fixing sleeves ( 40 ) are deformed before the respective screw elements ( 64 ) break;

wherein after the respective screw elements ( 64 ) break, the rear car bodyshell ( 10 ) shifts forwards in a longitudinal direction of the electric passenger motor car relative to the battery housing ( 12 ).

2 . The connecting device ( 28 ) according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of fixing sleeves ( 40 ) have a respective inner sleeve ( 32 ) that surrounds the respective screw element ( 64 ) and a respective outer sleeve ( 34 ) that surrounds the respective inner sleeve ( 32 ) and wherein a respective connecting structure ( 36 ) is disposed between the respective outer sleeve ( 34 ) and the respective inner sleeve ( 32 ).

3 . The connecting device ( 28 ) according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of fixing sleeves ( 40 ) protrude from the crossbeam ( 30 ) in a direction of the rear car bodyshell ( 10 ).

4 . The connecting device ( 28 ) according to claim 1 , wherein the battery housing ( 12 ) is passed through by the respective screw elements ( 64 ).

5 . The connecting device according to claim 1 , wherein the crossbeam ( 30 ) is pre-mounted on the battery housing ( 12 ) with the plurality of fixing sleeves ( 40 ).

6 . A connecting device ( 28 ) that connects a battery housing ( 12 ) to a rear car bodyshell ( 10 ) of a body of an electric passenger motor car, comprising:

a crossbeam ( 30 ); and

a plurality of fixing sleeves ( 40 ) that are disposed in the crossbeam ( 30 ), wherein each of the plurality of fixing sleeves ( 40 ) are passed through by a respective screw element ( 64 ) to connect the battery housing ( 12 ) to the rear car bodyshell ( 10 ) by the crossbeam ( 30 );

wherein the plurality of fixing sleeves ( 40 ) each have a crash structure which is deformable when absorbing energy in an event that an accident of the electric passenger motor car causes movement of the rear car bodyshell ( 10 ) relative to the battery housing ( 12 );

wherein the plurality of fixing sleeves ( 40 ) have a respective inner sleeve ( 32 ) that surrounds the respective screw element ( 64 ) and a respective outer sleeve ( 34 ) that surrounds the respective inner sleeve ( 32 ) and wherein a respective connecting structure ( 36 ) is disposed between the respective outer sleeve ( 34 ) and the respective inner sleeve ( 32 );

wherein the respective connecting structure ( 36 ) is a plurality of spokes ( 38 ) that extend between the respective inner sleeve ( 32 ) and the respective outer sleeve ( 34 ) in a radial direction to a longitudinal central axis of the respective inner sleeve ( 32 ) or the respective outer sleeve ( 34 ).

7 . A connecting device ( 28 ) that connects a battery housing ( 12 ) to a rear car bodyshell ( 10 ) of a body of an electric passenger motor car, comprising:

a crossbeam ( 30 ); and

a plurality of fixing sleeves ( 40 ) that are disposed in the crossbeam ( 30 ), wherein each of the plurality of fixing sleeves ( 40 ) are passed through by a respective screw element ( 64 ) to connect the battery housing ( 12 ) to the rear car bodyshell ( 10 ) by the crossbeam ( 30 );

wherein the plurality of fixing sleeves ( 40 ) each have a crash structure which is deformable when absorbing energy in an event that an accident of the electric passenger motor car causes movement of the rear car bodyshell ( 10 ) relative to the battery housing ( 12 );

wherein the crossbeam ( 30 ) has a plurality of chamber walls ( 50 - 62 ) which sub-divide a plurality of chambers ( 42 - 48 ) disposed one above the other in a vertical direction of the electric passenger motor car and wherein the plurality of chamber walls have respective wall strengths that are different from one another.

8 . The connecting device ( 28 ) according to claim 7 , wherein central chamber walls ( 52 - 54 ) of the plurality of chamber walls ( 50 - 62 ) have a greater wall strength relative to outer chamber walls ( 50 , 56 ) of the plurality of chamber walls ( 50 - 62 ) in relation to the vertical direction of the electric passenger motor car.