Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Kosuke Araki

Masato Kunisada

Keiichiro Inoue

Yuya Suzuki

Shinya Ando

Takushi Matsumoto

A vehicular battery mounting structure () includes a floor panel (), a battery frame () arranged below the floor panel (), and a bracket () provided on both left and right sides of a vehicle, interposed between the floor panel () and the battery frame (). The bracket () includes a bottom wall portion (), an inside flange portion () that is on an inside in a vehicle width direction, and an outside flange portion () that is on an outside in the vehicle width direction. A shape of the bracket is a generally hat-shape opening upward in the sectional view taken along the vehicle width direction. The battery frame () is indirectly or directly fixed to the bottom wall portion (). The inside and outside flange portions () are joined to the floor panel () such that a joint strength between the outside flange portion () and the floor panel () is greater than a joint strength between the inside flange portion () and the floor panel ().

Vehicular battery mounting structure

A vehicle seat including a rod installed between left and right side frames of a seat cushion, wherein the rod is provided with a weakened part which is configured to promote the buckling distortion of the rod in a predetermined direction, wherein the weakened part includes first and second weakened portions which respectively weakens a portion of a surface of the rod facing a first direction and a portion of a surface of the rod facing a second direction opposite to the first direction at an end portion of a side of the rod to which an impact load is inputted, so that the rod is configured to be bent in the first direction and the second direction, and wherein the first weakened portion is formed closer to the side to which the impact load is inputted than the second weakened portion.

Vehicle seat

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Toyota, Japan

Kosuke Araki