US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 14 for "Traction battery with hurdle-shaped flexible printed circuit" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,232, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery with hurdle-shaped flexible printed circuit" was invented by Yongcai Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Brian Utley (Canton, Mich.), Chi Paik (Grosse Ile, Mich.), Dean Joseph Deangelis (Livonia, Mich.), Mark Parenti (Clinton Township, Mich.) and Francisco Fernandez-Galindo (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction battery includes a battery array and a flexible printed circuit (FPC). The FPC including a hurdle-shaped flexible substrate that is planar and has opposing first and second planar surfaces and opposing first and se...