US Patent Issued to FCA US on April 7 for "Replaceable low voltage connector adapter with integrated fuse design" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,749, issued on April 7, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Replaceable low voltage connector adapter with integrated fuse design" was invented by Caizhen Sun (Shanghai), Jingjing Zhao (Shanghai), Huiyang Yu (Shanghai), Weisi Gu (Shanghai), Cuicui Zhang (Shanghai) and Xinjie Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for an adapter for a high voltage (HV) battery system of an electrified vehicle (EV) involve an adapter housing configured to physically interface between (i) a battery module-side low voltage (LV) connector and (ii) a cell monitoring circuit (CMC) harness-side LV connector and a plur...