US Patent Issued to CONSTELLIUM NEUF-BRISACH on June 23 for "Battery tray bottom for electric vehicles" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,722, issued on June 23, was assigned to CONSTELLIUM NEUF-BRISACH (Biesheim, France).

"Battery tray bottom for electric vehicles" was invented by David Barbier (Grenoble, France), Jocelyne List (Saint Egreve, France) and Jean-Philippe Masse (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to battery trays for electric or hybrid vehicles. The bottoms of the battery trays are made of a thin sheet of aluminum alloy having a modulus of elasticity higher than 77 GPa in order to optimize thickness thereof while ensuring resistance to intrusion. The invention also relates to a thin sheet of 4xxx series aluminum alloy wh...