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US 12,597,662 B2Granted
Traction battery pack enclosure patch and enclosure patching method
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsYongcai Wang, Tao Shen, Ahteram Khan, Saravanan Paramasivam, Mohammadreza Eftekhari, Anil Reddy Pullalarevu, Mike Popovski, Brad Warren Probert
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Abstract
A traction battery pack assembly includes, among other things, an enclosure having a lid and a tray. The enclosure has a corner area connecting a first side of the enclosure to a second side of the enclosure. The first side is transverse to the second side. The assembly further includes a patch secured to the corner area.
Claims16
A traction battery assembly comprising:
- an enclosure having a lid and a tray, the enclosure having a corner area connecting a first side of the enclosure to a second side of the enclosure, the first side is transverse to the second side;
- and
- a patch secured to the corner area, wherein the patch is configured to bond to the corner area during a sheet molding compound forming process,
- wherein the corner area of the enclosure is sheet molding compound,
- wherein the patch is sheet molding compound.
2 more elements
A traction battery assembly comprising:
- an enclosure having a lid and a tray, the enclosure having a corner area connecting a first side of the enclosure to a second side of the enclosure, the first side is transverse to the second side;
- and
- a patch secured to the corner area, wherein the patch is configured to bond to the corner area during a sheet molding compound forming process, wherein the corner area contains a first percentage of glass reinforcement, and the patch is a sheet molding compound containing a second percentage of glass reinforcement, the second percentage greater than the first percentage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.