Patent ID: 7641013

Claim:
A battery mounting structure for a hybrid vehicle, comprising: a cylindrical shaft member provided in a rear edge of a lower end of a battery package to serve as a rotating shaft so that the battery package can rotatably move with respect to the cylindrical shaft member between a vertical position and a horizontal position; vertical position maintaining means to maintain the battery package in a vertically oriented state behind a rear seat of the vehicle; horizontal position maintaining means to maintain the battery package in a horizontally oriented state on an upper surface of a rear floor of the vehicle; a horizontal position air supply means to supply air from a rear floor side into the battery package through a rear surface of the battery package which is adjacent to the rear end of the vehicle while the battery package is horizontally oriented on the upper surface of the rear floor; a vertical position air inlet formed at an upper position in a first end surface of the battery package so that air is supplied into the battery package through the horizontal position air supply means or the vertical position air inlet; and an air outlet formed at a lower position in a second end surface of the battery package to discharge air, which is drawn into the battery package through the horizontal position air supply means or the vertical position air inlet.