ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,647, issued on April 22, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Vehicle mounted structure for battery pack" was invented by Keiichiro Ota (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideki Koike (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinichi Matano (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mounting structure is provided for mounting a battery pack on a floor of a vehicle cabin. The installation structure includes a bottom plate of a housing of the battery pack, cooling pipes provided inside or on a surface of the bottom plate for circulating coolant, and a plate-shaped underguard. The underguard has upwardly protruding ribs and downwardly protrudin...