US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 9 for "Traction battery pack having electrically connected battery cells and battery cell joining method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,808, issued on June 9, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery pack having electrically connected battery cells and battery cell joining method" was invented by Patrick Daniel Maguire (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Michael E. Reibling (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes electrically connecting a first battery cell to a second battery cell by joining a first tab terminal of the first battery cell to a second tab terminal of the second battery cell. The method further includes compressing the first tab terminal and the second tab terminal after the joining. A batter...