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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 1/00 ;
Abstract
A battery box is detachably supported below a floor panel at a central portion of an electric vehicle. Batteries are mounted in a rear portion of the battery box, and a control unit and a PDU are mounted in a front portion of the battery box. As a result, the positions of the control unit and the PDU are lowered, which can contribute to the lowering of the center of gravity of a vehicle, and power lines extending from the batteries via the control unit and the PDU to a road wheel driving motor can be disposed at shortest distances, whereby the lengths of the power lines can be suppressed to the minimum.