Center Console Battery Case Assembly for Backup Power Reliability
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Solution Overview
Problem
As vehicles become increasingly electronically complex, there is a need to protect electronic components from low voltage and low amperage situations caused by main battery failure, which existing technologies do not adequately address.
Innovation Solution
A battery case assembly with a hollow rectangular structure is designed to house a secondary battery, where the first member with a bottom, upright, and top portions is fixed to the vehicle floor, and a second member completes the structure, ensuring the battery is concealed within a center console assembly, providing protection and maintaining constant voltage and amperage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a secondary battery is installed to protect vehicle electronics from power failure, then reliability of electronic components is improved, but device complexity increases due to additional battery system requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The battery case is nested within the center console assembly, with the battery housing integrated into the console's internal structure. The first member and second member form a hollow rectangular structure that is contained within the center console, creating a nested arrangement where the battery system is housed within the existing console architecture rather than requiring a separate dedicated space.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the battery is concealed within the center console assembly, then aesthetic appearance and safety are improved, but accessibility for maintenance and replacement becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The battery case is designed as a separate, modular unit comprising the first member and second member that can be independently accessed. The hollow rectangular structure is segmented from the rest of the center console assembly, allowing it to be removed or accessed without disassembling the entire console, thereby maintaining concealment for safety and aesthetics while enabling practical maintenance access.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the battery case structure is integrated into the vehicle floor and center console, then structural stability is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The battery case is designed as a modular assembly with the first member forming the bottom and upright portions, and the second member forming the top portion. This segmentation allows each component to be manufactured separately using standard fabrication processes, then assembled together and mounted to the vehicle floor, reducing overall manufacturing complexity while maintaining structural integrity through the integrated hollow rectangular configuration.
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AI summary
A battery case assembly includes a first member and a second member. The first member has a bottom portion, an upright portion and a top portion. The bottom portion is rigidly and fixedly attached to a vehicle floor structure. The second member is attached to the first member thereby defining a hollow rectangular structure with an open forward end and an open rearward end. A battery fitted within the hollow rectangular structure such that forward end of the battery is exposed via the open forward end of the hollow rectangular structure and a rearward end of the battery is exposed via the open rearward end of the hollow rectangular structure.