US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Battery pack thermal exchange assembly and thermal management method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,270, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Battery pack thermal exchange assembly and thermal management method" was invented by Sangyeon Kim (Northville, Mich.) and Chulheung Bae (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction battery assembly, includes a thermal exchange frame configured to communicate a coolant that manages thermal energy levels within a traction battery pack, and an plurality of busbars held by the thermal exchange frame. A thermal management method includes moving a coolant through a thermal exchange frame to manage thermal energy levels of a battery array, and ...