US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on March 3 for "Bus bar routing configurations for traction battery packs" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,092, issued on March 3, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Bus bar routing configurations for traction battery packs" was invented by Zeinab Jomaa (Dearborn, Mich.), Alex Revels (Canton, Mich.), Michael E. Reibling (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Deanna Marie Winton Hoffman (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bus bar routing configurations are provided for traction battery packs. Exemplary routing configurations may position the bus bar over top of one or more cells stacks of the traction battery pack. A structural cross-member beam of each cell stack may include a notch for accommodating the ...