Patent ID: 6547020
Filing Date: 2003-04-15
Classification: B60K,H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
A first battery mounting assembly for mounting batteries that have horizontal upper surfaces, a positive voltage terminal and a negative voltage terminal and that may be arranged in a first lower row of batteries, a second lower row of batteries, a first upper row of batteries and a second upper row of batteries to a vehicle that has a centroid, structural components, an electrical system, and may also have a second battery mounting assembly that is mounted to the vehicle with second battery assembly hangers that may be mounted to the structural components of the vehicle, said first battery mounting assembly comprising:(a) one or more main support members engaged to and supported by some of the structural components of the vehicle; (b) a first lower battery tray, upon which a plurality of the batteries that are to be mounted to the vehicle are supported when the batteries are mounted to the vehicle, engaged to and supported by said one or more main support members; (c) one or more upper tray support components directly or indirectly engaged to and supported by said one or more main support members and/or said first lower battery tray; (d) a first upper battery tray, upon which a plurality of the batteries that are to be mounted to the vehicle are supported when the batteries are mounted to the vehicle, (e) wherein said first upper battery tray is engaged to and supported by said one or more upper tray support components; (f) wherein at least a portion of said first upper battery tray is disposed directly vertically above said first lower battery tray at a distance above said first lower battery tray such that one or more of the batteries that are to be mounted to the vehicle may be supported upon said first lower battery tray below said first upper battery tray and there would be space between any of the batteries, if they were supported on said first lower battery tray, and a lower surface of said first upper battery tray; and (g) wherein said upper tray support components, which do not include any of the batteries that are to be mounted to said first battery mounting assembly, extend vertically from said one or more main support members and/or said first lower battery tray and are engaged directly to said first upper battery tray in such a manner that said first upper battery tray is supported in a same spaced relationship above said first lower battery tray whether or not any of the batteries are disposed on the first lower battery tray or the first upper battery tray.