US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 14 for "Traction battery pack assembling method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,373, issued on April 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery pack assembling method" was invented by Patrick Daniel Maguire (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Marc Dugas (Wixom, Mich.) and Jason C. Marcath (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack assembly method includes holding a cell stack with a compression machine. The compression machine engages a first load plate at a first end of the cell stack and a second load plate at an opposite, second end of the cell stack during the holding. The method further includes aligning the cell stack relative to an enclosure structure while ...