US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Traction battery pack assembling method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,637, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery pack assembling method" was invented by Patrick Daniel Maguire (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Che-Chun Chang (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Marc Dugas (Wixom, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction battery pack assembling method includes compressing a first cell stack within a first compression fixture, compressing a second cell stack within a second compression fixture, positioning the first cell stack and the first compression fixture next to the second cell stack and the second compression fixture, and inserting the first and second cel...