US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on June 23 for "Heavy-duty vehicle battery suspension system comprising a pyrotechnical fastener" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,968, issued on June 23, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Heavy-duty vehicle battery suspension system comprising a pyrotechnical fastener" was invented by Johan Ojergren (Kungalv, Sweden) and Kenny Leandersson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heavy-duty vehicle battery suspension system for releasably holding a rechargeable traction battery in an electric heavy-duty vehicle, wherein the heavy-duty vehicle battery suspension system comprises a pyrotechnical fastener, wherein the heavy-duty vehicle battery suspension system is configured to release the traction battery if the pyrotechnical fa...