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Granted Patent B2
US 9,840,138 · App. 15/216,269 · Granted Dec 12, 2017

Vehicle vibration suppressing structure

Inventors: Yasuhiro Shirai (Toyota, JP); Wenfeng Li (Nisshin, JP); Weining Wu (Toyota, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B60K1/04F16F1/37B60K2001/0405B60K2001/0438B60L11/18B60L11/1877
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Patent No.
US 9,840,138
App. No.
15/216,269
Granted
Dec 12, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle vibration suppressing structure includes a floor panel, a storage section, and a vibration suppressing section. The floor panel includes a general portion that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction and a vehicle width direction, and a floor pan that is provided contiguously to the general portion and that is formed in a concave shape indented toward a vehicle lower side. The storage section that covers the floor pan as viewed from a vehicle upper side is attached to the general portion, and is capable of storing a storage object. The vibration suppressing section is disposed between a lower face of the storage section and a bottom wall portion of the floor pan in a state of contact with the lower face and the bottom wall portion.

Claims (27)

1. A vehicle vibration suppressing structure comprising:

a floor panel configuring part of a vehicle body and including:

a general portion that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction and a vehicle width direction, and

a floor pan that is provided contiguously to the general portion and that is formed in a concave shape indented toward a vehicle lower side;

a storage section that covers the floor pan as viewed from a vehicle upper side, that is attached to the general portion, and that is capable of storing a storage object; and

a vibration suppressing section that is disposed between a lower face of the storage section and a bottom wall portion of the floor pan in a state of contact with the lower face and the bottom wall portion,

wherein the floor pan further includes:

a surrounding wall portion that extends toward the vehicle lower side from a boundary between the floor pan and the general portion, and that configures a surrounding wall of the floor pan, and

a curved wall portion that is formed contiguously to each of the surrounding wall portion and the bottom wall portion, and that is curved so as to bulge toward an outer side of the floor pan,

wherein a lower face of the vibration suppressing structure is in face contact with the curved wall portion,

wherein the vibration suppressing section includes a lower side abutting portion, and a pair of upper side abutting portions abutting the storage section,

wherein the lower side abutting portion includes a bottom wall region, and a curved wall portion side abutting region extending upwards from the bottom wall region, and

wherein the curved wall portion side abutting region is disposed at a position abutting a vehicle width direction central portion of a curved wall portion of the floor pan, the lower face of the curved wall portion side abutting region is in face contact with the curved wall portion of the floor pan, and the bottom wall region is mounted on the bottom wall portion of the floor pan.

2. The vehicle vibration suppressing structure of claim 1 , wherein:

the vibration suppressing section is constituted from a resin; and

a plurality of projections are provided at upper faces of the pair of upper side abutting portions of the vibration suppressing section so as to project out from the upper faces, and the plurality of projections abut the lower face of the storage section.

3. The vehicle vibration suppressing structure of claim 2 , wherein:

the lower side abutting portion is formed in a block shape having a substantially uniform thickness in the vehicle front-rear direction and in the vehicle width direction;

and

horizontal dimensions of the pair of upper side abutting portions gradually widen in the vehicle forward direction and in the vehicle width direction from respective leading end portions of the upper side abutting portions to the lower side abutting portion.

4. The vehicle vibration suppressing structure of claim 1 , wherein

the storage object is a plurality of battery modules that configure a vehicle mounted battery, and the storage section is a storage case that stores the battery modules.

5. The vehicle vibration suppressing structure of claim 1 , wherein

the vibration suppressing section is disposed in a position abutting a vehicle width direction central portion of the curved wall portion of the floor pan.

6. The vehicle vibration suppressing structure of claim 3 , wherein:

the plurality of projections include a first plurality of ribs extending along the vehicle front-rear direction, and having triangular shapes as viewed in vertical cross-section at an upper face of either one of the pair of upper side abutting portions; and

the plurality of projections includes a second plurality of ribs extending along the vehicle width direction, and having triangular shapes as viewed in vertical cross-section at the upper face of the other upper side abutting portion.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 21, 2016
From: SHIRAI, YASUHIRO; LI, WENFENG; WU, WEINING
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-176140 · Sep 7, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170066313A1 · Mar 9, 2017