US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 7 for "Traction battery pack enclosure assemblies with integrated thermal barrier systems" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,376, issued on July 7, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery pack enclosure assemblies with integrated thermal barrier systems" was invented by Bhaskara Rao Boddakayala (Troy, Mich.) and Sudhakar Nandam (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Traction battery pack designs for use in electrified vehicles may include a thermal barrier system adapted for mitigating thermal propagation inside of the traction battery pack during battery thermal events. The thermal barrier system may include features such as a bifurcation structure and/or a canopy structure. The bifurcation structure is adap...