Saddle Vehicle Battery Box Mounting on Cross Member

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing storage part structure for saddle type vehicles requires simultaneous detachment of the storage box and battery box during maintenance, which is cumbersome and complicates operations, especially when electric power is needed from the battery.

Innovation Solution

The battery box is mounted on the cross member of the body frame, allowing it to be separated from the storage box for disassembly, enabling the storage box to be detached independently without removing the battery, with a guide part facilitating easy positioning and fixing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If the battery box is integral with the storage box, then the structure is simplified and assembly is easier, but the storage box cannot be detached without detaching the battery, reducing maintainability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveassembly simplicityVSAvoidmaintainability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSEase of repair

Solution Approach 1:

The battery box is separated from the storage box to form an independent component. The battery box is mounted on the cross member of the body frame through a mounting part, while the storage box can be detached independently. This segmentation allows the storage box to be removed for maintenance without detaching the battery, resolving the contradiction between assembly simplicity and maintainability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Device complexity

If the storage box is detached together with the battery box, then the mounting structure is simplified, but the operation becomes troublesome during maintenance requiring electric power

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemounting structure complexityVSAvoidoperation convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The mounting structure is segmented into two independent systems: the battery box mounting system attached to the cross member, and the storage box mounting system attached to the battery box. This allows the storage box to be detached independently during maintenance operations requiring electric power, improving operational convenience while maintaining structural simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The battery box is extracted from the storage box as a separate component with its own mounting part attached to the cross member. This extraction enables the storage box to be removed independently without affecting the battery box, allowing maintenance operations to proceed conveniently while keeping the overall mounting structure relatively simple.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Ease of repair

If the battery box is mounted on the cross member separately, then the storage box can be detached independently, but the mounting structure becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovemaintainabilityVSAvoidmounting structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of repairVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The battery box mounting part combines multiple functions: it attaches the battery box to the cross member, provides positioning through positioning parts, and enables easy detachment. By merging these functions into a single integrated mounting part, the structure achieves improved maintainability without excessive complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The mounting part serves multiple purposes: structural attachment to the cross member, positioning of the battery box, and enabling independent detachment of the storage box. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate components, achieving improved maintainability while controlling overall structural complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP2703272B1Storage part structure for saddle type vehicle
Publication Date: 2019.11.27 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

In a storage part structure for a saddle type vehicle including a storage box and a battery box, the invention aims to make it possible to detach a battery box easily and enhance maintainability. According to the invention, the storage part structure for the saddle type vehicle includes the storage box (80), and the battery box (77) formed as a body separate from the storage box (80) and fixed to the storage box (80). In the storage part structure, the battery box (77) is disposed under the storage box (80), a horizontal part cross member (18) constituting a body frame (F) is disposed under the battery box (77), and the battery box (77) is mounted on the horizontal part cross member (18).