Nissan Motor Company Limited

Yasutsune Terashima

Takeshi Onodera

Takeshi Kakiuchi

Masahiro Ataka

Daisuke Akazawa

A vehicle charging port arrangement is provided with a vehicle body, a charging port support member and an electric charging port. The vehicle body includes a vehicle front end portion. The charging port support member is supported on the vehicle front end portion. The charging port support member includes an energy absorbing structure that is configured and arranged to deform towards a support structure of the vehicle front end portion and into an energy absorbing area that is disposed forward of the support structure of the vehicle front end portion during a frontal impact. The electric charging port is attached to the charging port support member, with the electric charging port being configured to receive an electric charging connector.

Impact energy absorbing vehicle charging port support arrangement

A vehicle battery pack housing structure includes a vehicle body panel and first, second and third panel components that define an outward-opening battery housing space. The first panel component is rigidly attached to the vehicle body panel and includes a first side wall and a base wall. The second panel component is rigidly attached to the first panel component and includes a second side wall and a first periphery wall portion. The third panel component is rigidly attached to the second panel component. The third panel component includes a second periphery wall portion that cooperates with the first periphery wall portion to form a periphery wall portion when the third panel component is rigidly attached to the second panel component.

Vehicle battery pack housing structure

A vehicle underfloor structure includes under covers () that cover an underside of a vehicle, and drain members (D) provided in the under covers (). The drain members (D) each include: a front inclined wall () provided with a water drain opening (); and a rear inclined wall (). A recess is formed in each under cover in a front-back direction of the vehicle in such a manner that a first interior angle (&#x3b8;) formed by the front inclined wall is larger than a second interior angle (&#x3b8;) formed by the rear inclined wall and a length of the front inclined wall is different from a length of the rear inclined wall.

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Ebina, Japan

Yasutsune Terashima