Chrysler Corporation

Kevin L Young

Dennis F Stedman

Stuart A Ehrhardt

Joseph Vitous

Khaja A Ahmed

Frank J Norris

Milind M Dange

Sadanand Gawaskar

David M Grylls

Richard M Connelly

Dattarey N Gawaskar

A tray has a bottom panel for supporting a battery. An inner panel projects upwardly from the bottom panel to provide an inner locator for the battery. A retainer holds the battery down on the bottom panel. A lock member for the retainer is moveable from an unlocking position to a locking position, and when moved to the locking position forces the retainer inwardly. The retainer has an abutment engageable with the battery to move the battery inwardly against the upright panel when the retainer is moved inwardly. Two fulcrum points in the retainer cause a vertical force to hold the battery in place by a lever effect of the lock member and fulcrum points.

Battery mount

An open-top vehicle rear cross car beam body support arrangement for an open-top vehicle having a passenger compartment defined in part by a front floor pan ending in an elevated rear floor pan together with right and left rear inner wheelhouse panels. The beam arrangement includes forming each wheelhouse panel upper inboard portion with a recessed step defining opposed upstanding riser portions each having a lower edge terminating in an inboard extending tread portion. An upper horizontal gusset panel of the beam is welded to upper portions of spaced apart front and rear downstanding gusset panels, while lower flanges of the front and rear gusset panels are welded to the rear floor pan forming a closed section cross beam. The outboard ends of the upper gusset panel terminate in connector portions, each formed with an upstanding shroud having a top panel defined by fore and aft downstanding side walls together with an inboard wall. Each shroud, welded together with its associated underlying wheelhouse tread and riser portions, define a box-shaped stiffener enclosing a pair of upstanding strut fastener receiving spacers. The spacers, in combination with their stiffener, are adapted for transferring their associated strut loads to the cross beam, thereby minimizing the transmission of road noise into the passenger compartment.

Vehicle body rear support arrangement

A battery support device for supporting a battery in an automobile, the automobile having an engine compartment, the engine compartment having a side and a side rail. The side rail has an upper surface, the upper surface having an outer side toward the side of the engine compartment. The engine compartment further has a vertical wall extending upwardly from the outer side of the upper surface of the side rail. The battery support device includes a one-piece support tray for supporting a battery, the support tray being attachable to the side rail of the automobile so that the battery is cantilevered off the side rail.

Battery support device

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New Baltimore, MI, United States of America

Kevin L Young