US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 25 for "Traction battery cell expansion accommodating endplate and expansion accommodating method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,310, issued on March 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery cell expansion accommodating endplate and expansion accommodating method" was invented by Xiao Guang Yang (Northville, Mich.), Jingmei Shen (Troy, Mich.), Bogdan Bude (Canton, Mich.), Pratima Addepalli (Saline, Mich.) and Connor McCann (Berkley, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction battery assembly includes, among other things, a plurality of battery cells disposed along an axis, an endplate at an axial end of the plurality of battery cells, and a corrugated area of the endplate. The corrugated area has a plurality o...