US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Traction battery pack venting assembly and venting method" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,261, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery pack venting assembly and venting method" was invented by Xiaogang Zhang (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack venting assembly includes a battery pack vent that communicates a flow of vented gas through a vented gas passage from a vented gas inlet to a vented gas outlet. The battery pack vent has at least one ambient air passage configured to communicate ambient air into the vented gas passage."

The patent was filed on Aug. 15, 2022, under Application No. 17/887,837.

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