Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Subaru Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Cataler Corporation

Naoki Takahashi

Takahiro Suzuki

Masahide Miura

Takahiko Fujiwara

Akira Morikawa

Akihiko Suda

Takeru Yoshida

Toshitaka Tanabe

Masahiko Takeuchi

Yuki Aoki

Oji Kuno

Satoru Katoh

Akemi Sato

Tadashi Suzuki

Keizo Hiraku

Takaaki Kanazawa

Shingo Sakagami

Satoru Kato

Miho Hatanaka

Takeshi Nobukawa

Akiya Chiba

Atsushi Tanaka

Michihiko Takeuchi

Kae Yamamura

Yusuke Kawamura

Masaaki Kawai

Masanori Yamato

Shin Inoue

Akemi Satou

Takuya Hirota

Mamoru Saito

Masaya Kamada

Itou Minoru

Ryuta Fujii

Kazuhiro Yoshimoto

A battery replacement apparatus includes a detection device that detects position and orientation of a battery (first battery), a battery mount where a battery (second battery) is placed, the battery mount being capable of being raised, and an adjuster that adjusts position and orientation of the battery that is placed on the battery mount. The battery mount allows the battery to be attached to a vehicle body from below the vehicle body, by being raised below the vehicle body in a state where the battery is placed on the battery mount. The adjuster adjusts the position and the orientation of the battery placed on the battery mount, based on the position and the orientation of the battery detected by the detection device.

Battery replacement apparatus and battery replacement method

The present disclosure presents aAvehicle frameworkstructure, whichstructurecomprises: a front framememberthatconfiguresformsa part of avehicleframeworkofata vehicle front sectionof a vehicle; a rear framememberthatconfiguresformsa part ofatheframeworkofata vehicle rear sectionof the vehicle; an intermediate framememberthatconfiguresformsa part ofatheframeworkofata vehicle intermediate sectionof the vehicle,and that includes a framework memberthe intermediate frame member isdisposed between the front framememberand the rear framemember,andhavinghasa length direction in a vehicle front-rear direction; and a coupling section that includes a firstconfigurationcouplingmember attached tothe framework member ofthe intermediate framememberso as tobe continuous with the framework memberextendin the vehicle front-rear direction, and a secondconfigurationcouplingmember attached to the firstconfigurationcouplingmember so as tobe continuous with the first configuration memberextendin the vehicle front-rear direction.

Vehicle framework structure

A vehicle has a vehicle body provided with a pair of rockers, the rockers each being provided on one side of a floor panel in a right-left direction and on another side of the floor panel in the right-left direction. The vehicle has a battery pack that is disposed below the floor panel, and that stores electric power to be supplied to a traveling motor. The vehicle has a pair of fixing members, the fixing members each being disposed on one side of the battery pack in the right-left direction and another side of the battery pack in the right-left direction, that is configured to fix the battery pack to the rockers. The vehicle has an elastic member disposed between the battery pack and the fixing members. The elastic member is disposed in a state compressed by the battery pack and the fixing members.

Vehicle

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Miyoshi, Japan

Naoki Takahashi