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US 2015/0086833 A1Published application
Electric vehicle battery attachment assembly and method
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsVineeth Seshadri Kallur, Hari Addanki, Brian Utley, Steve F. Chorian, Debbi Callicoat
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Abstract
An example method of connecting an electric vehicle battery includes welding a landing of a terminal to a bus bar, and pressing a landing of the terminal and the bus bar against one another during the welding. The landing is along a first plane and a base of the terminal is along a second plane that is spaced from the first plane.
Claims18
A method of connecting an electric vehicle battery, comprising:
- welding a landing of a terminal to a bus bar;
- and
- pressing a landing of the terminal and the bus bar against one another during the welding, wherein the landing is along a first plane and a base of the terminal is along a second plane that is spaced from the first plane.
An electric vehicle battery assembly, comprising:
- a terminal;
- a bus bar;
- a laser welded lap joint securing the bus bar to the terminal.
A battery terminal, comprising:
- a landing that secures a battery terminal to a bus bar;
- and
- a base that secures the battery terminal to a current collector of a battery cell, wherein the landing is along a first plane and the base is along a second plane that is spaced from the first plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.