ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,099, issued on May 20, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).
"Method for disassembling a battery housing of a high-voltage battery system" was invented by Malte Schulze (Gifhorn, Germany), Ernst Storm (Wahrenholz, Germany) and Frank Greppler (Wolfenbuettel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for disassembling a battery housing of a high-voltage battery system, in particular of a vehicle, in which housing parts of the battery housing are in material connection with each other along joining flanges, wherein for disassembling the battery housing a disassembly tool is inserted into a joining gap between the joi...