Patent ID: 9096117
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: B60K,Y02T,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A body structure of a hybrid vehicle driven using power of an internal combustion engine and electric power supplied from a secondary batteries, the body structure comprising: a propeller shaft disposed in a lower side of a floor panel in a vertical direction of the vehicle so as to extend in a fore-aft direction of the vehicle, and configured to transmit the power of the internal combustion engine and the electric power to at least a rear wheel; and an integrated battery unit disposed below the floor panel so as to cover the propeller shaft, the integrated battery unit having at least the first secondary battery and a second secondary battery, wherein the intergrated battery unit includes a middle section, a right-side section and a left-side section in the width direction of the vehicle, the battery unit includes a recess that is open toward the floor panel to house the propeller shaft, and which extends in the fore-aft direction of the vehicle between the first and second secondary batteries, and the propeller shaft is housed in an inner space enclosed by the floor panel and an upper surface of the battery unit, the upper surface of the battery unit also defining the lower surface of the recess.