JP2009067112A - Battery stand - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a battery stand capable of being easily manufactured, while having suitable rigidity. <P>SOLUTION: This battery stand 1 is used for mounting a battery 51 on a front side frame 41, etc. of a vehicle. The battery stand 1 is provided with a planar battery base 10 mounted with the battery 51 thereon, and first stay 20 and second stay 30 fixed to the front side frame 41, etc. to support the battery base 10. The first stay 20 and the second stay 30 are annularly joined to the battery base 10 in plane view so that bending rigidity of the battery base 10 may be enhanced. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a battery base for attaching a battery to a vehicle body.

  Generally, a battery disposed in an engine room of a vehicle is attached to a body such as a front side frame via a battery base (Patent Document 1).

Japanese Patent No. 3928429 (FIGS. 1 and 2)

  The battery base described in Patent Document 1 has a vertical wall portion that is integrally formed in a standing state in a vertically upward direction at the peripheral edge and is continuous in the circumferential direction in order to increase its bending rigidity. As described above, since the vertical wall portion is continuous in the circumferential direction, the battery base has been obtained by pressing (molding) a steel plate as a base material using a mold. That is, a die for press working has to be manufactured, and the manufacturing cost of the battery base and the battery stand, which are molded products, has been high.

  Then, this invention makes it a subject to provide the battery stand which has easy rigidity and can be manufactured easily.

  As means for solving the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a battery base for attaching a battery to the body of a vehicle, a plate-shaped battery base on which the battery is placed, fixed to the body, A stay that supports the battery base, and the stay is fixed to the battery base in an annular shape in plan view so as to increase the bending rigidity of the battery base. .

Since the battery base of such a battery stand does not require a vertical wall portion (edge wall portion) formed by bending the sides constituting the periphery upward or downward, the steel plate serving as a base material is cut. Etc., it can be easily obtained. That is, the battery base can be obtained without pressing a steel plate or the like, and a mold is not used. Even if the battery base has a plurality of vertical wall portions in order to increase its rigidity, the plurality of vertical wall portions may be discontinuous between adjacent sides of the sides constituting the periphery. If it is discontinuous in this way, the battery base can be obtained by bending or the like.
Thereby, a battery base and a battery stand can be manufactured cheaply and easily.
In addition, since the stay that is fixed to the body and supports the battery base is fixed to the battery base in a ring shape in a plan view, the bending rigidity of the battery base can be increased.

  Further, the battery base is formed by bending upward two opposite sides among the sides constituting the periphery thereof, and has a latching portion for latching the battery mounting rod. The battery stand is fixed in the vicinity of the latching portion.

Since the battery base latching portion of such a battery base is formed by bending two opposing sides out of the sides constituting the periphery of the battery base, the two latching portions are It is not continuous in the circumferential direction. That is, such a battery base can be obtained inexpensively and easily by bending a steel plate or the like.
And the battery attachment rod which attaches a battery to a battery stand can be latched by a latching | locking part. Further, since the stay is fixed in the vicinity of the latching portion of the battery base, the rigidity of the battery base in the vicinity of the latching portion can be increased, and the battery base is not easily deformed.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a battery base that can be easily manufactured while having suitable rigidity.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

≪Battery stand configuration≫
The battery stand 1 according to the present embodiment is a stand for attaching a battery 51 to a front side frame 41 and a front side gusset 42 that constitute a left front portion of a vehicle body. The battery base 1 includes a plate-shaped battery base 10 on which the battery 51 is placed, and a first stay 20 (first bracket) and a second stay 30 (second bracket).

<Battery base>
As shown in FIG. 4, the battery base 10 is a plate-like component having a large number of sides on the periphery thereof in plan view. The battery base 10 has a latching portion 11, a latching portion 12 and a vertical wall portion 13 formed by bending the sides constituting the periphery upward, and a vertical wall portion 14 formed by bending downward. And have.

  The latching part 11, the latching part 12 (both are vertical wall parts), the vertical wall part 13, and the vertical wall part 14 are not formed on adjacent sides. That is, the latching part 11, the latching part 12, the vertical wall part 13, and the vertical wall part 14 are not continuous in the circumferential direction between adjacent sides. Thereby, the battery base 10 can be obtained by bending a steel plate or the like as a base material without bending the press working or the like using a mold.

As shown in FIG. 1, the latching portion 11 and the latching portion 12 are provided with hooks 54 and 54 of two rods 53 and 53 (battery mounting rods) for attaching the battery 51 to the battery base 1, respectively. It is the part to hang. Specifically, the hook portion 54 of the first rod 53 is inserted into the insertion hole 11 a of the latching portion 11, and the hook portion 54 of the second rod 53 is inserted into the latching hole 12 a of the latching portion 12. (See FIG. 6).
A clamp 52 that holds the battery 51 toward the battery base 10 is attached to the top of the rods 53, 53. The nuts 55 and 55 are screwed onto the upper portions of the rods 53 and 53 so that the clamped state of the battery 51 by the clamp 52 and the battery base 10 is maintained.

  The latching portion 11 and the latching portion 12 are portions formed by bending two opposite sides of the sides constituting the periphery of the battery base 10 upward, and are placed on the battery base 10. It arrange | positions so that the battery 51 which may be separated may be opposed (refer FIG. 4). Moreover, the latching | locking part 11 and the latching | locking part 12 are arrange | positioned in the diagonal position which shifted | deviated with respect to the front side frame 41 extended in the front-back direction of a vehicle (refer FIG. 4).

  The vertical wall portion 13 is disposed on the short side of the battery 51 that is rectangular in plan view. The battery 51 is in contact with the vertical wall portion 13 so that the battery 51 is positioned in the longitudinal direction.

<First stay, second stay>
The first stay 20 and the second stay 30 are components that are fixed to the front side frame 41 or the front side gusset 42 and support the battery base 10 from below. That is, the first stay 20 and the second stay 30 are components that connect the battery base 10 and the front side frame 41 or the front side gusset 42 and constitute the legs of the battery base 1.

  The first stay 20 has a substantially U shape in plan view (see FIG. 5), is integrally formed on the substantially U-shaped vertical wall portion 21 and the upper portion of the vertical wall portion 21, and is joined to the battery base 10. And a substantially U-shaped joined portion 22. And the lower end of the vertical wall part 21 is fixed to the front side frame 41 with the three volt | bolts 29, 29, and 29 (refer FIG. 2). Moreover, the to-be-joined part 22 and the battery base 10 are joined by carrying out spot welding of the joining location X in FIGS. 2-5, and this some joining location X is also arrange | positioned at a substantially U shape. Furthermore, the joint location X related to the first stay 20 and the joint location X related to the second stay 30 described later are arranged in an annular shape.

  Similar to the first stay 20, the second stay 30 has a substantially U shape in plan view (see FIG. 5), and is formed integrally with the substantially U-shaped vertical wall portion 31 and the upper portion of the vertical wall portion 31, There are to-be-joined parts 32, 32, 32 joined to the battery base 10. And the lower end of the vertical wall part 31 is fixed to the front side frame 41 or the front side gusset 42 with the two volt | bolts 39 and 39 (refer FIG. 3). Further, the joined portions 32, 32, 32 and the battery base 10 are joined by spot welding the joint locations X in FIGS. 2 to 5, and the plurality of joint locations X are also arranged in a substantially U shape. Has been.

  Thus, the first stay 20 is fixed to the front side frame 41 at three points, and the second stay 30 is fixed to the front side frame 41 or the front side gusset 42 at two points. That is, the battery base 10 is attached to the body (front side frame 41 or front side gusset 42) via the first stay 20 and the second stay 30 at five points (plural points), and the battery 51 is stabilized. Can be attached.

<Relationship between battery base and first and second stays>
Next, the positional relationship between the battery base 10 and the first stay 20 and the second stay 30 will be described.
As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the first stay 20 and the second stay 30 are annularly joined (fixed) to the lower surface of the battery base 10. Specifically, the substantially U-shaped vertical wall portion 21 of the first stay 20 and the substantially U-shaped vertical wall portion 31 of the second stay 30 form an annular shape, and the substantially U-shaped of the first stay 20. The first stay 20 and the second stay 30 are joined to the lower surface of the battery base 10 so that the joined portion 22 of the second stay 30 and the substantially U-shaped joined portion 32 of the second stay 30 form an annular shape. . Thereby, the bending rigidity of the battery base 10 is improved.

  More specifically, the first stay 20 is mainly joined between the latching portions 11 and 12 and the vertical wall portion 14 in the surface direction of the battery base 10. The bending rigidity of the battery base 10 with the vertical wall portion 14 is increased. On the other hand, the second stay 30 is mainly joined between the latching portions 11 and 12 and the vertical wall portion 13 in the surface direction of the battery base 10, and the latching portions 11 and 12 and the vertical wall portion. The bending rigidity of the battery base 10 with respect to 13 is increased.

  That is, on the side that forms the periphery of the battery base 10, the hooking portion 11 or the like is not formed, and the portion of the battery base 10 in which the bending rigidity is not increased is fixed to the lower surface of this portion in the ring shape. The first stay 20 or the second stay 30 which is a part of the stay is arranged and joined to increase the bending rigidity of the part.

For example, as shown in FIG. 6, the joined portion 32 of the second stay 30 is joined (fixed) in the vicinity of the latching portion 12. Thereby, the bending rigidity of the battery base 10 in the vicinity part of the latching | locking part 12 is improved. Therefore, even if the nut 55 is turned too much in order to fix the battery 51 to the battery base 1, the battery base 10 in the vicinity of the hooking portion 12 is not deformed vertically upward. The same applies to the vicinity of the latching portion 11.
Furthermore, if the joined portion 32 extends to a lower position in the vertical direction of the latching portion 12 and the battery base 10 and the joined portion 32 are joined at a position substantially directly below the latching portion 12, the latching is performed. The deformation of the battery base 10 in the vicinity of the portion 12 can be more suitably suppressed.

≪Operation and effect of battery stand≫
According to the battery stand 1 according to the present embodiment, the following actions and effects can be obtained.
The vertical wall portions (hanging portions 11, 12, vertical wall portions 13, 14) formed on the periphery of the battery base 10 upward or downward are not formed on adjacent sides, that is, adjacent sides Therefore, the battery base 10 can be obtained by bending a steel plate or the like as the base material. That is, the battery base 10 can be obtained by bending (general-purpose bender molding) with a general-purpose machine tool without using press working using a mold. Therefore, the battery stand 1 can be obtained at low cost.

  Since the first stay 20 and the second stay 30 that are legs of the battery base 10 are joined to the lower surface of the battery base 10 so as to form an annular shape, the bending rigidity of the battery base 10 can be increased. Moreover, since the to-be-joined part 32 of the 2nd stay 30 is joined in the vicinity of the latching part 12, the bending rigidity of the battery base 10 near the latching part 12 can be improved.

  As mentioned above, although preferred embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not limited to the said embodiment, For example, it can change as follows in the range which does not deviate from the meaning of this invention.

In the above-described embodiment, the case where the battery base 10 has the vertical wall portions (hanging portions 11 and 12 and the vertical wall portions 13 and 14) formed by bending upward or downward is illustrated. As shown in FIG. 7, the battery base 10 which does not have a vertical wall part may be sufficient.
In this case, a long bolt 56 is used instead of the rod 53, and the long bolt 56 is inserted upward into a through hole formed in the battery base 10 in the vertical direction so that the head of the long bolt 56 is inserted into the battery base 10. Configure to be hooked. And it is preferable to extend the to-be-joined part 32 of the 2nd stay 30 to the long volt | bolt 56 side, and to reinforce the peripheral part of the battery base 10 which functions as a latching | locking part of the long volt | bolt 56, and to raise bending rigidity.

  In the above-described embodiment, the case where the stay is composed of two parts of the first stay 20 and the second stay 30 is illustrated, but the number of stays is not limited to this. Further, the shape of the stay may be appropriately changed according to the shape of the body (the front side frame 41 or the like) to which the stay is fixed.

It is a perspective view of the battery stand which concerns on this embodiment, and is a figure from the diagonally right front. It is a disassembled perspective view of the battery stand which concerns on this embodiment, and is a figure from the diagonally right front. It is a disassembled perspective view of the battery stand which concerns on this embodiment, and is a figure from the diagonally left front. It is a top view of the battery stand which concerns on this embodiment. It is a top view of the battery stand which concerns on this embodiment, and is a figure which abbreviate | omitted the battery base. It is the sectional view on the AA line of FIG. It is sectional drawing of the battery stand which concerns on a modification.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Battery stand 10 Battery base 11, 12 Hanging part 13, 14 Vertical wall part 20 1st stay 30 2nd stay 31 Vertical wall part 41 Front side frame (body)
42 Front side gusset (body)
51 Battery 53 Rod (Battery mounting rod)
54 Hook part X Joint location

Claims (2)

A battery stand for attaching a battery to a vehicle body,
A plate-shaped battery base on which the battery is placed;
A stay fixed to the body and supporting the battery base;
With
The battery base is characterized in that the stay is fixed to the battery base in a ring shape in plan view so that the bending rigidity of the battery base is increased. The battery base is formed by bending upward two opposite sides among the sides constituting the periphery, and has a latching portion for latching the battery mounting rod.
The battery stand according to claim 1, wherein the stay is fixed in the vicinity of the hooking portion.

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