US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Traction battery pack cell stack removal method and battery pack assembly" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,327, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery pack cell stack removal method and battery pack assembly" was invented by Patrick Daniel Maguire (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack cell stack removal method includes compressing a cell stack with an enclosure structure when the cell stack is received within a cell-receiving opening of the enclosure structure, and pulling a cell stack removal strap to withdrawn the cell stack from the cell-receiving opening of the enclosure structure."

The patent was filed on July 21, 2022, under Application No. 17/8...