US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 28 for "Traction battery pack thermal management system and thermal management method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,137, issued on July 28, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery pack thermal management system and thermal management method" was invented by Nathan Lee (Novi, Mich.), Jie Deng (Novi, Mich.) and Liam E. West (Ferndale, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction battery pack includes a cell stack, an enclosure assembly housing the cell stack, and stand-offs that space-apart the cell stack from a portion of the enclosure assembly to provide a coolant channel configured to communicate a coolant. The stand-offs can be part of the enclosure assembly or part of an insert separate from the encl...