ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,750, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Traction battery pack assembling method" was invented by Che-Chun Chang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Patrick Daniel Maguire (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Marc Dugas (Wixom, Mich.) and Nilesh Patil (Kolhapur, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack assembly method includes compressing at least one cell stack, inserting the at least one cell stack into a cell-receiving opening of an enclosure structure, and pushing at least one cell of the at least one cell stack out of the enclosure structure using a pusher. Another traction battery pack assembly method ...